1973_____ (be) the year I _____ (visit) London for the first time and I  _____ (bewitch) by the city.

My friend Christie and I found a small hotel just off Holland Park Road. By an amazing coincidence, it was the same hotel in which Christie's father ____ (stay) five years before - and they _____ ( remember) him!

Near the hotel there were several buses,  none of which ran particularly regularly in those days. Every morning we _____ (catch) one of these buses to Oxford Street and _____ (spend) hours looking in shop windows at wonderful things.

Christie also liked to go to Knightsbridge, where there were even more expensive shops, such as the famous Harrods. The only things we could afford there were beautiful linen handkerchiefs, which we _____ (give) to our friends when we  _____ ( get back) to New Zealand.

Christie's older brother, who _____ (visit) London earlier that year,  _____ (give) us  a  list  of  places  to  visit. 

We happily retraced his steps, sometimes  stopping  for  a  cup  of tea in one of the cafes  which he _____ (recommend).