The weather in London has been particularly nice since we arrived, that is until this weekend. The weekend we decided to stay and explore London Proper we received stereotypical pouffy weather…..overcast, splotchy rains, and chilly winds. Bekah and Suze powered through though. Saturday, we ventured out to Notting Hill, down to Portobello Road Market which was so jam packed with people you could barely get close enough to see what people where selling. The market is full of antiques, clothes, fruits/veggies, prepared food, and the best part… pastries. Due to the massive amounts of people, the only thing purchased was delicious donuts. We also took a stop at the Travel Bookstore, the one that Hugh Grant runs in the movie called, coincidently enough, Notting Hill. We then moved on to Camden Market. This is supposed to be the famous London market…My Fair Lady’s flower market was even modeled after it. However, the minute we walked out of the tube station all we could take in were the gothic/eighties clothing and tattoo/piercing shops. After Portobello Road, this market was a huge letdown. Needless to say we didn’t buy anything here either, but hey we can say we’ve been. We decided then to go to West End (the theatre district here) and see about attending a play this weekend/next week. Well as it turned out, we bought tickets for a show that night and had to rush home and back, which took approximately an hour one way. It was worth it though. We saw Joseph at the Adelphi Theatre, and it was awesome with lots of good singing and bright colors. Songs were sung in all different styles from country, Elvis, French, and 80s. Bekah has given warning to Suze that she may be singing them for the rest of the trip.
Sunday, we started again at another market, Spitalsfield. Luckily, this one was fancy….it was covered. Here, it was similar to Portobello Road, but far less crowded and with a lot more artistic and fashion booths. Suze and Bekah are apparently terrible market shoppers because, yup you guessed it. We left empty handed. From here, we were going to go see Tower of London and other British sites, but since the tubes we needed were all under construction, we decided to go shopping at Covent Market (not an actual market, but an area of town with lots of shops) and Harrods. Harrods is gigantic, practically a whole city block and 4 stories high with amazing Food Halls. They have an Egyptian hall where the elevators are that are decorated in true extravagant ancient Egyptian fashion. There was even an employee in there serenading us with an opera aria. Bekah and Suze decided they needed to partake in high tea and seeing as it was that time, they settled down in the café for their pot of tea and scones with clotted cream and jam. The Brits really do know what they’re doing. High tea was delicious and perfect for the cold wet day.
In case you are wondering, what the frack is a monkey’s wedding? Well, Bekah and Suze have discovered that in Africa this means a sunny day with rain. Strange, but true.
Also, Suze wants it to be known that Bekah drank not one but TWO shandy's when they went out with the work peoples on Friday. For those of you who dont know, the most Suze has seen Bekah drink beer was approximately 5 sips. So this is impressive.
Word of the blog: pouffy – inclement weather. In a sentence: see earlier in the blog. On Saturday, it was a bit of a pouffy day, what with all the monkey’s weddings.
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ah, give her a little credit. i've seen her drink about half a bottle before. though not that often. and it took longer than a thing of yogurt. which if you know bekah...
ReplyDeletegonna have to get some lemonade and make myself one of those shandys. shandies. yeah, the 2nd one.