Saturday, August 23, 2003

thewife and I have arrived and are well esconced in Sarf London. I think its actually East London, but it's definitely sarf of the river thames. Yesterday, we bid bon voyage to the reidboy, Jo and Ewan who are Italia bound, and then found a pleasant enough pub, Bar Alchemy to have lunch of Tapas, Veggie Burger and Beer. The Scottish �20 was viewed closely and after checking with the manager, eagerly accepted. Spent an eternity waiting for food, woman at bar did apologise and say it was on its way, however thewife says she would have left had we not paid for it up front. When it did arrive we were quite pleased with the generous quantities and it was generally okay. Methinks a 4 though and won't be back. We then spent the afternoon pottering around the South Bank which was pretty, full of tourists though. Some of the housing looked fabulous and going relatively cheap at 750k.

Walked perhaps a bit too far as both of us complained of sair feet, so home via Sainsbury's, (the wife and I are in near heaven having a humungous Supermarket practically on our doorstep) where we selected a nice light salad with olives and feta and bread for our dinner al fresco, sat out until almost dark, watching the local squirrels pick plums and eat them from the tree at the foot of the garden.

thewife is making breakfast as I write, I am supposed to be surfing to plan an itinerary but one must blog.

Rainbow and Ginger are both well, although thewife speaks to them like they understand
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