Wimbledon - 27 June

Today we went to Wimbledon.  We had centre court tickets and saw Federer win in 3 sets, Woszniaki get beaten in first round in 3 sets by an unknown (at least we hadn't heard of her), Cliasters won in 2 sets and it looked like Jokavic was going to beat Harrison, but we had to leave as it was getting late and if we didn't leave then we may have missed the train home. 

federer on the left and fontini on the right - getting ready to play

I also saw Mauresmo walking around in the grounds, decidely smaller than she was when she was playing tennis.  She was tiny!

We also saw Charles & Camilla (sitting with a very attractive lady in an electric blue dress who we later found out was Heather Watson, the next great hope for British ladies tennis).  They were there to watch Federer play.

Whilst we were there Stosur was playing on Court No 1, and getting soundly beaten.  No more Australians in the tennis after round 2.  First time in how many years?
Had the strawberries and cream, as you do, but not the Pimms (the strawberries were nice but no better tasting than our own lovely organic strawberries from our farm garden).  Also got a little burnt in the sun watching a match on an outside court.  All the cliches really.


We then went back to a pub close to our hotel room in Earl's Court, tried to stay out as long as possible and this is the reason why, see picture below (suffice to say, we kept the curtains drawn the whole time we were there).  Serves us right for taking too long to book affordable accom.  It was supposed to be a 3 star hotel (go figure).  The toilet bowl was not bolted to the floor, the toilet seat was loose, the water drained from the shower really slowly (but at least it did drain) and the shower spray holder was broken so you couldn't fix it to shower 'hands free', so to speak.

View from hotel room in Earls Court (37 Collingham Place).