London trip (part one - men) 1.1 Friday 13 Feb

and now on to London trip proper.. first stop (well techniquely the first stop was the bank, but oh well) is.. Borough Market!! sis' kind recommendation.. this place is really cool, loadsa food, and man the smells mm

whiskey

the aforementioned veggie wrap.. roasted veg, couscous etc. mm

eat your heart out


more of the categorically-same

chocolate truffles.. don't they look 'heaven-ly'


cherry tomatoes! the yellow ones are reeeeally nice and sweeeet.. and they cheap too *cheep cheep*
i'm sorry but even after a few sniffs (across the market, not at one spot) and taste (of black truffle olive oil), i still don't appreciate black truffles..

baklava.. nutty, crispy-soggy, syrupy gooodness
falafel wrap, with chilli (!!) and tahini sauce.. and other good stuff in it

ooh hot mulled apple is really good.. made it okay for me to give up coffee, the smell of which had been tempting me for sooo long there.. mm mm mulled apple, as you can read on the chalkboard if you squint a little, it's apple+orange, lemon, ginger, cloves cinnamon.. so good.. and the stall owner is the old school brit kind who says "careful, luv', it's hot"

and i have to point out other stuff we tried at the market too, like scottish honey (so good), various cheeses, wild mushroom ravioli.. and so much other stuff like fresh produce, and lots meat.. meat/sausage/burger/bratwursts stalls abound, amid organic and vegetarian ones hee

but after that i went to meet up with a friend in london, took the tube, and i dunno maybe it's the novelty thing but i kinda like the confusion of taking the tube, having to check which lines go where (the northern line has two chains by the way), and yeah it kinda caused my friend a little panick on my last day there when i was late in meeting her and uncontactable (note: i'm usually late in general heh, and this time it was kinda coz i overshot.. have no idea how i could've missed king's cross station).. yeah it's more of a challenge i guess, and kinda in a twisted, coz-i-don't-live-with-it way, how they can stop lines sometimes kinda cool.. haha.. i hope this doesn't come back to haunt me in future visits to london, if and when :D

so anyway, yes, took the tube and went to Bond Street station, and onto Regent Street (mix up in the meeting place too)

just walked along, had free tea samples at Whittard (cool cool tea place, no photography allowed.. well to me anyway, who really knows right), and then..


into the National Geographic store!!! really cool place!!! wish i had spent more time in here.. but anyway this is a horse made outta driftwood! retailing for 1000plus pounds..

reeeally cool photographs

.. and lotsa other stuff, couldn't photograph everything, but i chose this French loveseat, in honour of Valentine's Day the next day haha.. anyway, more pics in the other posts.. scroll down :D