London

Last week i went on a day trip to London and what a day it was! The definite overall highlight (minus the obvious food/cake/chocolate thing) was being with someone that really knew London well. Being able to actually walk around, rather than getting the tube, and seeing everything from a different perspective was just lovely. It's amazing how many wonderful things there are to find when you take the time to find them.



We started off heading to Old Spitalfields Market which was a fabulous collaboration of food, antiques and general oddments. I couldn't believe i hadn't been there before. An extra bonus was finding a Montezuma's shop tucked in the market hall where i couldn't resist stocking up on some chocolates...more on that another time!



We then headed through Leadenhall Market (Hotel Chocolat, more chocolate) to Borough Market. It wasn't quite as busy as normal with it being a Thursday but there was still plenty to entice, beginning with a hog roast!



Of course, there was the obligatory consumption of Portuguese egg custard tarts (oh my) and, as well as indulging on the visual feast, i got a little box of macaroons to try. And some tea! Via various other places and detours, we then set out for South Bank to look at books and beach huts.



With the Hummingbird Bakery being the only other must-go-to place, the rest of the day was quite ad hoc and lovely for it. Alongside other places, Covent Garden was visited where we found this rather awesome ice cream shop; Icecreamist.



The camaraderie of the place was fantastic with the theme and feeling being whole-heartedly carried through and, most importantly, the ice cream was pretty damn good.



A combination of properly made, smooth ice cream, great flavours and the simple practice of serving it with an italian style 'scoop' (for which the proper name eludes me) made it quite the experience. I had the chocolate and hazelnut and chilli and ginger flavours...cor!



There was so much that we did and saw that i can't even recall half of it right now, but i will revisit a few specific things in seperate posts. I just can't wait to go back and walk around until my feet fail me all over again.



P.S. Just realised that all of these photos are aligned to the left...very annoying but i'm not going to sort it out now! Also, on a similar note, i have recently realised that the template settings are all correct to look good on IE but it looks pretty damn awful on Safari (and probably a lot of other browsers). Double doh!