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| Hoxton and Columbia Road Area |
Oh Wow, I'm terrible at keeping this thing updated. Ok, so let's get a
quick recap of my lovely London weekend with the lovely Dina Marie then
at the beginning of August!
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| Must Have London Pic! |
I arrived super late at night by the time I
took the train into downtown from Gatwick. DM picked me up at 12:30
and we started wandering the streets to find food (we both had skipped
dinner to look our Pitta girl skinniest, of course). The thing I never
realized about the Brits, is that they're a bunch of alcoholics! I
thought the Americans and the Germans both drank a ton, but I'm clearly
wrong. There were tons of people, on every corner, out front of every
bar, just pissed (thats how the Brits say drunk). It was like Broad
Ripple combined with State Street in Madison, Kirkwood in Btown and Rush
and Division in Chicago x10.
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| Dinner at Brawn with Elderflower drinks! YUM! |
So we're just wandering through
the streets unsuccessfully trying to find a cute pub that is still
serving food at 1am. Finally, we spotted a cute little French cafe. Sat
and had drinks and lovely snacks and chatted til 3am. We took the bus
(filled with drunken brits) back to her place and crashed out.
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| Columbia Road Flower Market! It took 10 minutes to go 100 feet. |
She
lived in this really cute area of London that was kind of
hipster-ish-Hoxton.
So since I had already been to London and done most of the touristy
things we spend all day Saturday walking around her neighborhood. We
found this cute cafe with mimosas and yummy brunch. We shopped at some
really cute boutiques. I started getting wedding ideas and looking for
colors. And of course, found a pub for fish and chips! Yum! Shopped
some more. Then we had a late dinner at Brawn. Which was really amazing
food and yummy Elderflower cocktails. We started with The Light club
with her
friends and then the night was crazy from there, which concluded with
all of us shotgunning at 4am in the park.
Typical Brits :)
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| Going to miss her! |
Sunday there's a huge flower market behind DM's
place, on Columbia Road, so we wandered and got lost. It's really beautiful and smelled so
good. There was every type of flower possible and everything was about 5
Pounds for a big bunch. Not too shabby. Then we went to Russell Square
to have a picnic in the park. It started raining midway through. So
then we headed to the nearby bowling alley for a few games before I
caught my flight home!
Wasn't too hectic of a weekend. Just lots
of family time and chatting! But sadly, DM has just moved back to the
states, so I'm alone in Europe once again. Visitors are welcome anytime!
XOXO,
~Les
