London - Tasty London

Tasty London!

Seems to have been a while in between posts. Since we moved to Queen's Park, life has been a little quieter. Steve & I have been looking for jobs and living day to day life, you know getting groceries, doing the washing, writing some letters and a few more postcards to people I realised I had forgotten in the last batch..Opps sorry!

I have to say the weather has been atrocious here (I am still waiting for that Summer I was looking forward to!.. Where are you Summer?) There has been little motivation for Steve & I to get around to finishing our sight-seeing tours of the British Museum & The Museum of Natural History. I hear you say "But rainy weather is perfect time to do the indoors stuff!! " Like hell it is, when you actually got to get out of your cosy apartment and tackle the wind and rain outdoors to GET to the museum..*chuckles* I probably exaggerate that a little, it hasn't been that bad, but I've had this compulsion to stay indoors and curl up and stay warm.. It has been raining CATS & DOGS in other parts of the UK, flash flooding and many people having to be rescued. The emergency services have certainly been kept busy.

Ummm what else? Steve and I caught up for dinner with Dave & Laura in Tooting Broadway (yes, such a place does exist!) It took us an hour to get there by tube (and so sorry for being late Ummm 35 mins), it's amazing really, we are still figuring out travelling time on the tube between places. I honestly didn't think it would take that LONG! We'll know next time and we promise we wont be late again ;o) Back to my point, we went to this little Indian place just up from the tube station and the food was so delicious and relatively in expensive. For the four of us, an entree, naan bread, drinks, 2 rice dishes and 4 curry dishes came to approx £40 and we all came out feeling full and with our belts undone a notch!

Speaking of feeling FULL :

On Saturday (the 23rd June), Steve and I met up with Ash & Ali (and a few others) at Regent's Park for the TASTE OF LONDON. The Taste of London, for those uninitiated is a festival/exhibition if you will entirely dedicated to food. Many of the major and top restaurants in London had marquee's like FIFTEEN (the Jamie Oliver restaurant), The Cinnamon Club, Canteen, The Boxwood Cafe at Berkeley Hotel (a Gordon Ramsay restaurant) etc as well as many other well known brands like Brown Brother's Wines, GU Chocolate, Penfolds Wines & Rachel's Organics (Yoghurt's). YUM! Not to mention the tonne of FREE SAMPLES along the way... cheese, wine, summer berries, ales, cakes, puddings, smoothies.. OMG!

Steve & I paid £35 each to go and with that we got two books consisting of 40 crowns all together. This was like our Monopoly money for the day. At the entrance, we were handed a book containing all the restaurant menu's for the afternoon and with that we chose what meals possibly interested us.On average to get a meal, we had to hand over between 8-10 crowns. I lost track of what Steve & I ate, I know I had some ravioli with spinach and ricotta cheese, a beef dish and a lamb dish (which we shared), a strudel, a mini SACHER torte, a mince/curry samosa of sorts.. and like I said HEAPS of samples...

We were very lucky actually, even though the weatherman had predicted stormy showers apart from sprinkles in the afternoon we barely had any rain. We got BOOTED out around 4pm and the guys all took their purchased bottles of wines to Regent's Park to polish them off under a tree. I left Steve, Ash, Ali, Courtney, Craig, Jodi and Scott at that point and headed home. I did however hear stories of Frisbee throwing, dining at somewhere called THE PING PONG and lots of hooligan like behaviour... but Steve can fill in the gaps should he choose to ;o)

On that note, for those of you who don't know Steve has scored himself a lovely new job on Fleet St in the city and he starts on Monday. Congratulations honey! Things will probably quieten down more for a while as we may not get a chance to do as much looking around as we have been, but until I get work I'll surely have a few things to comment about... Stay Tuned...

A few photo's from the Taste of London : http://picasaweb.google.com/hillsj/TasteOfLondon

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