London Hospitality Exchange: Spend Saved Hotel Money on Restaurants

There are a lot of great things about home exchanging, and saving money is definitely one of them. In certain destinations, this has distinct advantages since you can spend that saved money on wonderful restaurants. We took that advice and had a tasty dinner at Club Gascon, a French restaurant in London's Clerkenwell neighborhood. Best known for its foie goie and Sauternes, it's one of our favorite restaurants in the British capital. Stockard Channing, of Grease and West Wing fame, was seated at the table next to ours. Afterward, we popped right around the corner and looked at the old church where one of the weddings in Four Weddings and a Funeral was filmed. We returned to the tube by walking through the Smithfields market, where the picture to the right was taken.