On Thursday, we had some friends of ours from Atlanta, Laura and Gary, come into London for a week for a visit. We didn't do much on Thursday since we figured that they would be pretty jet-lagged. On Friday and Saturday however, we showed them a little bit of London. Staring on Friday, Tami and Laura went out to Oxford Circus to do a little shopping on Oxford Street. Gary likes to sleep late, and I had to work, so we stayed at the flat and met them for lunch. For lunch, we decided to try The Warrington, which is one of the gastropubs that Gordon Ramsey runs. For those that don't know, gastropubs are pubs that specialize in food, usually the stuff you find in fancy restaurants. The Warrington didn't disappoint in that regard since the food was really fancy. It was really good, but quite expensive and something I wouldn't eat on a regular basis. Tami had skate, which is a type of fish. It was pretty good, but you have to eat it a little different than regular fish and Tami ended up with mouthful of bones with her first bite.
Laura, Gary, Greg and Tami at the Warrrington:
After lunch, I finished up with work and everyone else went over to Baker Street to get their picture taken with Sherlock Holmes and to look around a bit. They also dropped into a pub and had a few drinks while waiting for me. Once I was done, we all went to Madame Tussauds which has wax statues of many famous people. It was a lot of fun, and some of the waxworks were better than others. We were disappointed that they had the Big Brother chair from the current season here in the UK closed since it was later in the day, but everything else was good. After we went through Madame Tussauds, we caught a bus and headed over to Camden Town. There is a bar there called FiftyFive that Tami and I like, especially between 5 and 7 everyday since they have two for one drinks (which is the only way you can afford to have a drink there.) After we had a drink, we went over to Wagamama's for supper, which is one of our favorite restauraunts in London (they opened a Wagamama's in Boston.... they better open one in Atlanta before we move back.) After walking around Camden for a bit, we went to the World's End for a drink. However, everyone was getting tired fast, so we headed home after that.
Tami with Daniel Radcliffe.... I'm worried about being replaced:
Fifty-Five has the best Margaritas and Mojitos in London that we've had so far. It takes forever to get a drink from the bar, so it's best to order an entire nights worth of drinks at once:
On Saturday, we met up with Laurent who Laura works with. He works down in Portsmouth, and caught a train up to London to do with us. Tami, Gary and Laura met up with Laurent around Waterloo and went over to see Big Ben, Parliament and Westminster Abbey while I took the dogs to the dogsitter since we would be leaving early the next morning. I met up with them and we took a leisurly stroll up the Thames over to the Borough Market area. It was pretty busy, so rather than doing a picnic, we decided to do lunch at a pub so that we could sit down and relax. We ended up at a Slug and Lettuce that was close by. After lunch, we headed over to Vinopolis where we did the wine tasting that they have. It was about the same as before, except that they have added a rum tasting as well.
Greg, Tami, Gary and Laura at the London Eye:
Laurent, Laura and Greg.... If you look really closely between Laura and Greg, you can see the IBM building.
Everyone (except Tami who was taking the picture) on the Millenium Bridge with St. Pauls in the background:
Greg, Gary and Tami at Vinopolis:
We then went over to Coven Garden and looked around a bit. We also stopped into the Porterhouse, which is a nice Irish pub that brews their own beer, so you can get something different than what most of the pubs in London serve. They also do samplers which is nice. We had supper at Wahaca, which is another one of our favorite restaurants. It's great Mexican food, although not the normal TexMex that we are used to in the states. After supper, we wandered around Chinatown, Leicester Square and Trafalger Square. At that point, it was getting late and we had to be up at 4:30 am to travel, so decided to head home.
Tami taking a picture at Porterhouse:
Everyone at Wahaca:
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