London: Miscellaneous Stuff

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It's nearly a week since I've gotten back (a very busy week) but I thought I'd post a few random awesome things about the trip to London, just so I remember them.

FJBryan, world's best travel companion. She knows fab restaurants in London, put up with my clothes shopping expedition down Regent St., and is more than up for filling a trip with as much theatre as possible

Coffee and croissants with the lovely solosundance

A jetlag recovery dim sum lunch at Chuen Cheng Ku on Wardour St.

Seeing the Treasures from Budapest show at the Royal Academy of Art

Seeing Stephen Fry going into the Treasures from Budapest show

A late, long lunch at Al Waha, an awesome Lebanese restaurant on Westbourne Grove

Pie for dinner at the Newman Arms

Praline macaroons from a swank shopping arcade near the Royal Academy, courtesy of FJB who insisted, quite rightly, I had to try them

Just being in London!

There's a lot of food in that list, isn't there?

And it has nothing to do with London, but I had one more awesome thing happen this week. I arrived at work on Monday to find I'd won the 40" widescreen TV we were raffling off for charity. And this just as we were about to replace our 20-year-old tube TV with, wait for it, a 40" widescreen TV. (That's my luck used up for the next decade.)

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[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

*thinks wistful thoughts of London*

Sounds like you had a lovely trip on all fronts and what a lovely celebrity sighting, not only Fry but the venue too.

Oh and congratulations on your win. The last actually useful thing I won in a raffle was a combination coffee and espresso maker. *strokes coffee and espresso maker fondly*

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I'm thinking wistful thoughts of London myself, and I've only just got back.

FJB gets the credit for the Fry sighting. She elbowed me in the ribs, and I turned to see a very tall bloke in tweed and a scarf go into the Royal Academy and did the "oh my god, was that..." thing.

As for the win, it's really astounding. I generally have the most appalling luck and never count on winning anything. (I did win a breadmaker and a company Christmas part oh, nearly 20 years ago, but I think I've used the darn thing once.)