Mary Tripped Out: London, Day 1

I apologize for being so slow to post. I have a lot of pictures to go through. Christine is doing a much better job keeping up with things.

So the traveling is obviously over. We started in New Orleans, flew to New York, to a shuttle to New Jersey, flew to Iceland, then arrived in London (after some delays) on June 10th, around 1pm London time. We took a train to the Waterloo station, where Kristi’s friend Yann met us and walked us to his place here (just a few minutes from the station). We freshened up a bit, and headed out for a late lunch at Leon. Got us some malay red curry, cauliflower and sweet potato gobi, and hummus. Then we walked a bit more, and decided to go into the Tate Modern because there are some free exhibits.

Dinner was at The Daily Bread (le pain quotidian). We are sharers, so we ordered an array of items and stuck our hands in all of it. Ham and cheese with three different mustards, crab & leek gratinee with Brioche, and the Italian plate (a large antipasto tray). We also tried their honey beer and cider. For dessert we ordered a treacle tart, and two other items, but apparently their desserts are delicious because they kept being out of the other ones we ordered. We finally got a Normandy apple tart and a Chocolate ‘bombe’ (sponge cake topped with like 2 inches of ganache).

We then walked around and got some amazing night pictures of the London Eye, Big Ben, Parliament, and just various London sites in general. I only had my wide-angle lens with me, but I think it made for some interesting shots.