London: Miscellaneous Stuff

[przed]

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.)

Comments

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh, ooh! That all sounds fabulous! (I must spend some actual time in London one of these trips.) Food reports are one of my favorite trip report items. It brings it all to life, somehow--maybe because multiple senses are involved and so the imagination runs riot. But oh, I'd've loved to have seen the Treasures from Budapest! (Not to mention Stephen Fry. *g* And solosundance. And FJBryan. And everything, really!)

Congratulations on the TV! Perfect timing. I hope it bodes well for the coming year!

[przed.livejournal.com]

You really do need to spend some time in London. I usually have trouble prying myself out of the city to venture anywhere else in the country.

I'm with you on food reports. Obviously.

And the TV was a fab score. Of course, now we want to re-buy all our favourite movies on blu-ray, because wow, do they look amazing on it.