Today was our day to catch up with Alyce, an old school friend of Rebs. Alyce used to live down the road from us when the girls were at St Oran's together. We walked from Piccadilly Rd, through Hyde Park and on to Notting Hill. We were half an hour late for our brunch date as we took some 'detours' in finding the right street. It was well over an hour of walking so we had worked up a bit of an appetite not having eaten since high tea yesterday.
The choice of venue was excellent and is owned/ run by an Australian. It was humming, and obviously is doing well for itself. It is one of those places where you can't book a table and there is a queue out the door, so you know that the food is going to be good. It was great catching up with Alyce and we handed over the order of Tim Tams, chocolate mint biscuits, and Whittaker's chocolate that I had been carrying since we left New Zealand. That should reduce the load in my bag by a couple of kilos on the trip home!
After saying goodbye to Alyce the three of us hit the tube station and headed to Tower Bridge. Right outside the tube station is Borough Market. This is one of the oldest and well known food markets in London. I found out later that there has been some form of market on this site since 757! It is absolutely devine. If I lived in London I would be doing my Saturday fruit/veg/meat shopping here. Have a look on-line at the Borough Market images and see the fabulous photos they have.
While we were out and about Trish and Lisa were off to watch the women's final at Wimbledon. Unfortunately the final only lasted 55 minutes as it was one sided but they enjoyed the champagne, strawberries, and the whole experience. They stayed to watch some of the men's double final which apparently a much better spectacle to watch. We caught up with them later at the hotel Lisa and Kev were staying at on Park Lane, and then headed off for a pub meal for dinner.
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