Sam and I, on the train at an ungodly hour, very excited!
Started off at the Borough Market, which I'd never been to. My, have I been missing out! Food, glorious food!!!
Cheese, sweets, meat galore. We pretty much had lunch solely through the samples we were given.
I have to admit, I'm a sucker for the smell of fresh bread. I wish they could bottle that and sell it. Cause that would be my room spray.
I bought this little guy for 50 p at a vegetarian stall. Its a flower pot bread! Wholemeal with sundried tomatoes, it was wonderful. Too bad I couldn't keep the flower pot too...
Sam also convinced me to try oysters, so we got two in the half shell and slurped em back.
To be honest, they didn't taste as fishy as I thought they would. Later on, she got me to try canned smoked oysters on crackers with cream cheese and I definitely liked that better. The smoke flavor was much nicer than the salty sea water flavor.
We also grabbed a sea salt and white chocolate cookie, which despite sounding quite nice, wasn't as impressive as I thought it would be.
We took a lovely stroll along the Thames...
...and I ended up back at the market in the end.
Another day, we went to one of my favorite shops, Fortnum and Mason. I was on the hunt for steel-cut oats, but we stopped for lunch there. Sam got a chicken caesar sandwich....and I got....
...a cornish pasty! The pastry was flaky and just the right thickness, but I think I enjoy steak and ale pastys more, as opposed to the potato ones. I think I'm in the wrong country, cause I really don't like potatoes as much as all these Brits seem to.
After having eaten a whole whack of weird and wondrous foods, we opted for a healthy dinner at a place called itsu. This, called a 7 vegetable detox, is really just miso soup with vermicelli and a whole bunch of veggies tossed in. Quite nice. I'm going to try re-creating it sometime.
They also had frozen yoghurt for dessert, which you could add fruit and granola into.
Made you look.
On our way to Portobello...
On the recommendation of my sister, I ate a falafel from the Happy Vegetarian falafel stall. Om nom.
Eventually I ended up back at Borough, where I decided to get another flower pot bread, and...
Carrot cake! (with cream cheese icing, of course)
Harrods at night.
A classy dinner from Harrods food store. One scotch egg and some yoghurt. Eaten on the bench outside.
Playin Monopoly at the hostel. I was the cheeseburger.
But we got tired and went to bed too fast to really finish it...
Hyde Park, which was right next to our hostel.
An old tree in the park, that has little figurines tucked into it.
Duck. Duck. Goose.
I also decided to take a little bike ride through the park, courtesy of the Barclays bike scheme. Only cost me a pound for a half hour of bike riding bliss.
Hello gorgeous.
And enter my favorite store: Whole Foods. Oh how I hope to live close to one of you, someday. Some veggie soup, a spelt roll, and a tofu spinach pancake.
Next pictures are from the Natural History Museum...
Lloyds of London. Also known as the inside-out building. Kinda looks like it belongs in Metropolis...or Tron.
Our hostel was the Smart Hype Park View, which was very close to Portobello, and a good deal all round. Plus there were triple bunkbeds! Sam and I slept on the very tops, of course. Overall, was a lovely trip!
The bookseller at Portabello Rd was where I saw the book of Arthur Rackham illustrated faery tales - way out of my price range but gorgeous. and! were the oysters raw? also that tree with the figurines! those are faeries! all tucked into the trunk of the tree....did you see them? and some of those pics are from the british museum because I recognize them. sigh. I miss london. and the chocolate mousse, too from pret a port
ReplyDeleteI love that bookseller. He has some early editions of Alice, Through the Looking Glass, as well.
ReplyDeleteThe oysters were raw, slurped out of their little shell-homes. Creepy, but surprisingly tasty.
I did see the faeries, but couldn't quite get any good pictures because of the cage.