GOSH has cafes and a restaurant and there are plenty of shops and places to eat nearby (including a swish new shopping precinct), but the place that really helped us whilst we were there was the Shabbos room.
There is a charity called Ezra U'Marpeh that has a room in GOSH (and a number of other hospitals in the UK) that contains all sorts of stuff that you might need over a Shabbat - grape juice, challah, cold meat, dips, cups, plates, cutlery, etc. All stocked on a regular basis and available free-of-charge.
There are quite a few religous Jewish families that go to GOSH and we met a couple of them whilst we were there - one young guy had come over from Vienna to get treatment for his daughter and insisted that we share in his cholent!
Along with the shnitzel from S&G we ended up with quite a good spread of food over Shabbat - as J said before we got there: 'God will provide'!
How Fragile We Are
No comments:
Post a Comment