The Photo shop
by Candyman666Β©
All characters participating in sexual activity in the stories are 18 or over. Please don't be afraid to let me know what you think of my stories. This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
To help you keep track of the different characters in the series, a list can be found on my author's page in order of their appearance in the stories.
Chapter 45: The trip to London with Grace
Thursday, December 10, and I still hadn't been able to print Hellen's magazine. Jada still needed to add the final touches and present it to her teacher Sunshine. I urged her to finish everything by the time Grace and I come back from London, perhaps excluding the approval of her teacher who I really wanted to meet. The worst was that I had to call Hellen and inform her that we would be slightly delayed.
"Hi Hellen, I'm afraid we're a bit delayed with the final steps, but by the time I come back from my London trip, Jada will have it finished and hopefully vetted by her teacher, ready for printing, so I expect we'll have everything ready for you by the 15
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"That's OK Lew, it is meant as a Christmas present for my husband so don't worry.
"Thanks, dear, I absolutely want this thing to be just as you want, and it is also a project Jada is doing for school and that's why we had to involve her teacher."
"Oh I see, that's great for her, I sure hope the teacher won't make problems with all the nudity and stuff."
"I doubt she will, her nickname is Sunshine, from the musical Hair, she's supposed to be an overaged hippy according to Jada. I haven't met her yet so I'm also very much looking forward to that."
"Don't you worry, and enjoy your trip to London with Grace, I'll see you when you get back.
"Thanks, Hellen; by the way, did I tell you Tanja wants something similar for the club, but with fewer pages and only pictures of things that have happened in the club? Of course, she'll have it printed in much larger quantities by one of the members who owns a print shop, but she wants us to prepare it for him."
"Great, I'm happy to hear that my idea finds more followers: tell Tanja if she wants a copy of mine I'll want a copy of hers."
"I will, cheers now."
Friday, December 11 had finally arrived, the day Grace and I were going on our weekend trip to London. As we wanted to make the most of it we had planned a very early departure. The Eurostar train departed from Brussels at 08:52. To be on the safe side, we had to catch a train at our local train station a little over an hour before, so I got a taxi to pick us up at 7 at Grace's home. Despite all the horror stories we heard about the train service, everything went smoothly, and about ten minutes before departure we were seated in our Business Premier seats onboard the Eurostar, which left on time. For me, it would be the first time I had gone through the Chunnel on a passenger train. I'd done it dozens of times when I visited my colleagues in the UK but then with my car on the shuttle train.
Once I even had a grand tour around the terminal in the UK including a visit to the well-protected control room and everything: one of the perks of working in the logistics world and meeting people also working in that business. I also got regular requests from acquaintances to visit the production line in the plant where I worked, which I gladly arranged, and then sometimes they gave me an inside view of their workplace. But I'm digressing, back to my story. We arrived at St Pancreas station just before 10, an hour younger than when we departed thanks to the time difference. We got ourselves a day card on the tube and proceeded to the hotel. Check-in was only from around 3 pm, but we could drop our bags and start our visit to London immediately.
With all her cruising and traveling, I presumed Grace had been to London before, so I was surprised to learn this was her first time in this wonderful city. There was a time I used to come at least once a year, aside from some business trips, so I did know my way around, which was much appreciated by Grace. The first destination we went to was Leicester Square, to the famous half-price ticket booth, to see which play we could see that evening. We were lucky, they had some great seats for The Mousetrap, the longest playing theatre performance in the city and probably in the world. I had seen a version in Antwerp a few years previously, but never the original. That covered us for the first evening.
That's unfortunately where it ended because London was no more the London I used to visit when I saw numerous plays like Pyjama Tops with a full-size see-through swimming pool on stage where girls came to swim in the nude. I loved it when I could see a play featuring one of the actors from the British comedy series perform live on stage, like in 'Let's get Laid' with John Inman, who played the part of Mister Humphries in 'Are you being served' or 'Indian Ink' where Felicity Kendal from 'The Good Life' did a full frontal. But the absolute top in that genre for me is still 'Oh Calcutta'.
Those were the days, and I only mentioned the plays with nudity in them, but none of that anymore, even Raymond's Revue Bar was gone. I'll probably have to settle for Grace performing a striptease in the hotel room, but enough reminiscing about the good old days, back to our London visit. After we bought the tickets we had a very traditional fish and chips in one of the eateries around Leicester Square.
From there I took her on a leisurely walk via Piccadilly Circus to Regent Street with all its wonderful shops. I promised her we would visit Harrods the next day and maybe a few museums as well. I already knew that by the end of this weekend I would be knackered, and as it turned out, I was.
We returned to the hotel by 5 in the afternoon and checked in. As I was still a gold card HHonors member they gave us a queen superior room. A nice spacious room with two queen beds giving us ample space for some horseplay which didn't take us too long to engage in. As soon as we closed the door behind us, Grace took me in her arms and kissed me as she had never kissed me before.
"Wow, what brought that on?"
"I'm so happy that you brought me here Lew. It has been on my to-do list for so many years and I never found the time nor the opportunity to actually do it, and here we are. Nancy was so jealous when she heard."
"Well you took me on a cruise, something I had been dreaming about for a long time as well, and then the trip to Florida to visit Jeff and Rachel..."
"Speaking of which, I've got a date when they will be coming to Belgium, they'll arrive the third week of January on Saturday the sixteenth. They will stay one week and then continue on to Rome to visit with Gina and Victoria."
"Sounds good, I'll need to make a note in my agenda to keep some time available to take them to the touristy places in Belgium."
"I'm sure they'll appreciate that greatly; they mentioned they wanted to see all the things they've been reading about."
"I'll give them all the info I had prepared for Gina's visit a few months ago."