OK, I’ve gotten a few comments on not wanting to see the Christmas bun anymore. I was thinking about leaving that as the top post until July (and renaming the post “Christmas bun in july”), but I’ve decided to do the even more self-indulgent thing and bore you to death with vacation pictures! yay!
My Europe travel on the road scrapbook album is still in progress. Turns out, when you’re walking 10 miles a day, there’s not any energy left to record the entire day at night. Oh well, I am finishing it up as we speak!
We had a pretty awesome flight from Raleigh to Heathrow, directly! We had a 24 hour layover, so we basically passed out on the plane (of course, we woke up for shady airplane food), and arrived in London jet lagged and ready to go.
Oak had already been to London, so I didn’t really want to spend the day hitting all the tourist sites… Tourist sites when you’re tired, not fun. We went to a few neighborhoods instead, like Camden Road where we saw the locks working (pretty cool), Notting hill (I think we missed where Julia Roberts lived.. I was not impressed with anything I saw there), and even crossed Abbey Road for my mom (an anti-climatic experience.. sorry! haha). We even got a picture with William and Kate! I refrained from buying a $15 William and Kate coffee mug… but oh, it was so tacky-licious!
The picture of the random dude is in camden road.. there is this shop that makes nitrogen ice cream. He basically takes an ice cream base in a kitchen aid and blasts it with liquid nitrogen. It was very tasty! We had lychee rose ice cream with blueberry sauce and caramel pretzels (their recommended combination).
For dinner, we went to a pub, and I had some really yummy indian food. London knows curries, I tell you. Nom nom. I drank some ciders, namely “Scrumpy” as Oak recommended it. Haha. I think the name says it all.
A hotel by the tube AND airport was key – made it all super easy. Looking forward to a longer visit someday!!!
April 15th, 2011 at 11:39 am
Oh yay for pics!!!!
The lychee ice cream combo sounds amazing!!!!!! And yeah, I wish I could go just to eat some of that tasty Indian food!!!!!
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