L.O.N.D.O.N.

On our first day out in London, we were driven in the stylish European, Hans. I feel like I’m abusing him every time I close the door – apparently car doors are much heavier at home than they are over here! I’ll need to watch out for that because all of the cars over here are European. There’s not a Toyota or Honda in sight, which given the location of England makes sense I guess.

We made our way to Southbank and pushed through some crowds (there were markets on) to the river and took some photos. Then we took photos of each other taking photos. Photos are neat.

After that we went to the OXO Tower to meet up with some friends for cocktails. Sam asked if the building had anything to do with stock cubes and was told no – but a quick Wiki search tells me otherwise! It was originally a power station, then a post office, then a cold store for OXO beef stock cubes and now is a mixed use restaurant, artsy and apartment building. More importantly – it has a great view and the cocktails were fancy and very strong.

For lunch we headed to Covent Garden to a tapas place called Pix. The food was great and they had an interesting payment system going on. You could walk up to the bar and grab whatever you wanted to eat but each dish had a little wooden skewer in the top which was counted when you went to pay. I think it crossed our minds that we could hide a few but the food was delicious and completely worth the money we paid.

Wandering around Covent Garden we went to Kopapa for coffee and saw Peter Gordon. (He’s a famous chef and according to his website he’s ‘often called Europe's father of fusion cuisine’) That was exciting for the first day out in London and even though we didn’t chat to him it still feels great.

We meandered across to the Victoria Embankment Gardens and gazed at some very pretty tulips.

And then had a drink at this giant upturned cow. I’m still not quite sure what it was.  

At the end of the day we made our way back to the car. It was like I was a kid again because I slept (and probably dribbled everywhere) most of the way back to Windsor.