As we approached this ornate building, I thought to myself, 'What's this? A museum? An important government building? An opera house?'



No, it's a department store. :-)



That's so English. A department store that looks like a museum. Anyway, it turns out the be the legendary Harrod's department store. The bus tour explained they employ something like 6000 people.



The bus tour also relates an (again, very English) anecdote which I'm sure is apocryphal, but worth retelling anyway. Upon hearing the store's slogan, 'Everything for everyone everywhere', one customer asked for an Elephant Sandwich. The clerk's equally smart-assed reply: 'I'm sorry sir, but we've just run out of bread.'