Monday was a three quarter day, the other quarter gallivanting off in Guernsey. To be honest, I seem to have gone blank on what exactly we did in the morning! aha! that reminds me, I'm actually writing about Tuesday not Monday. Wow, this post will be interesting!
Tuesday....incidentally also a 3/4 day. We lazily meandered into London late morning. Jumped off the tube around Leicester Square and walked around China town. Wandered around a radius of about 200metres and kept getting frustrated that we seemed to frequently cross the invisible boundary from bright red banners and Chinese characters to the dull grey of modern London. It was only when we left that we realized that we had only explored the fringes of Chinatown! Probably due to the inadequate and uninformative details from Google maps on the iPad which precisely pinpoints our own position on the map but can't precisely label the entire sprawl which is Chinatown! Really, the manufacturers failed on this one...
After much searching through the dozens of Chinese restaurants (the criteria being: 1.cheap 2. good vegetable dishes 3. bubble tea (quickly removed from the list) 4. Filled with Asians (they've got to know if their own food is bad right??) ). Unfortunately, the place we finally waltzed into had 2/1000000000 of the Chinese population in it. ie. 2. Regardless, the food was amazing and we shared three dishes of consisting of Dim Sun - 4 ball things filled with yummy other things steaming in a basket - and two other dishes which I cannot recall exactly what they were. One had pretty decent tofu in it with eggplant and the other had great noodles with large chunks of lamb. oooo, the sounds of pleasure which leave my mouth even as I recall this in writing is testimony to the food's quality!
From here we rushed (!) off to the Natural History Museum where we met up with Becky who took us through to the picture gallery presentation. These were the top natural photos in the world taken in 2011 and they were honestly spectacular. I'm not one for walking around for appreciating things like this, but the photos were....captivating. Unfortunately, on leaving, I fell into the blatantly obvious tourist trap and the strategically placed shop (exiting the exhibition required one to go through the shop) and bought some beautiful postcards....yes, i'm a sucker.
Anyway, we found a coffee shop and dipped in to play a few rounds of banagrams-much like squabble but without the point system. From here, Beks and I decided to go meandering along the river (which was beautifully lit with lights, especially the bridge) whilst Josh and Becky went back to her house to prepare supper. After much excitement and adventure (including running out of money on my oyster card which disallowed me into the bus) Beks and I eventually arrived having walked the whole way-great walk actually. then followed a pleasant evening with some scrumptous lasagna and fascinating conversation. Also entertaining to watch the banter between Becky and her landlord Richard, another fascinating gentleman. Again, we followed supper with a game of bananananagrams. Becky, in a very unhostlike manner, repeatedly won. As a result we the Bells, unaccustomed to such a devastating series of losses soon packed up and left in a huff, though not before shaking the dust off our sandals (or tackies) at the door...Na, not at all. The game was lots of fun and it was a satisfying end to a great day.
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