Vienna
Caught up with Papa in Vienna on the weekend. It always feels surreal to see someone you know in a different country. Didn’t get to hang out as much as I’d liked but we had fun, and ate lots of food – thought not as much as I’d like – Wiener Schnizel, Apfel Strudel, Sacher-torte and Brattwurst. DELICIOUS. Mozart concert in costume was great. The Opera House was magnificent, and very… hot… I can understand the ladies with their opulent fans in the olden days now. It was awesome to…Read More
Tastecard Chronicles: Roman Tapas Grill, Caledonian Road
1 year ago today, A & I found ourselves in KFC on Upper Street in Islington, eating the most disgusting fried chicken of our lives as our first taste of London. The only thing suppressing us from completely freaking out about flying halfway across the world to a land of shitty food was…well, the fact that we were in London. Fast forward 12 months, and here we are at Roman Tapas Grill, toasting our 1 year London anniversary in conjunction with our 5 year ”anniversary”. Really, it was just another…Read More
Paris
Paris. The city of lights, the most romantic city in the world. There are many names and many descriptions. It’s a city both amazing and amazingly over-rated. But like everywhere else nothing beats seeing it for yourself. We took the Eurostar – backwards – for 2.5 hours and arrived in Paris sleepy-eyed and lost. Tried to make it without a map, but was clearly a mistake. EU$4.95 later, we were armed with “Paris Pratique Par Arrondissement Edition 2011″ and dangerous. The rest, as they say, is history. Montage time… Overwhelming facade…Read More
Tastecard Chronicles: Bincho, Soho
If you’re from London or have lived in London, you may know of a little plastic gem by the name of Tastecard. For £69.95 you receive a 12 month membership where you receive 50% or 241 deals at over 4500 restaurants all over the UK, of course with a few limitations. If you remember my rants about how bad London food is, you’ll know that getting this card was a complete no brainer. And since I plan to be eating out a lot more, I thought it’d be a good…Read More
Byron
It’s Friday and the thought of cooking and eating in our cramped apartment was not enticing. So A and I decided to meet up at Angel. One of the annoying things about London is that everytime you walk into a restaurant, you’re effectively gambling away roughly £25. You really just never know if your coke is going to be lukewarm or your steak is going to be rubbery. Its easy to doubt the reviewers too because – well really, do they even know what they’re talking about if they grew…Read More
Oxford Blue (or Pantone 282)
Did you know that Oxford University’s brand colour has it’s own Pantone code? Neither did I, until today, because I bought a blue Oxford t-shirt for my da and was wondering if maybe I should have got grey. Turns out I got lucky. So a few new things have changed since my last post. Most importantly – I have a job. *Cheer!Huzzah!Hurrah!* – sort of. Being a PA/EA sounds fancy, until you realise, you’re really just someone’s bitch. I spend all day organising someone else’s life, while not having much…Read More
Finally
It is quite possible, that we’ve found heaven…as we know it. A random suggestion to visit London Bridge has lead us to the goldmine that is Borough Market. We had no idea what would be at London Bridge, well, besides a bridge. So when we stepped off the bus and saw a sign saying “Borough Market This Way”, we shrugged our shoulders and followed the sign pointing into a dingy under-the-bridge tunnel… the rest of the day was a blur… It was like the pot of gold at the end…Read More
By Request
Hey guys! Photos by popular demand! Would love to have given you more, but house hunting has temporarily taken over our lives. Actually some photos of the ridiculous places we’ve seem would’ve made a good post, we’ve seen one with a brick wall outside the window, one with NO window, one with NINE bedrooms, one came with a guy eating instant noodles out of a pot in his pj’s at 2pm…one that had 2 single beds that looked like it belonged in a dirty jail cell and another which had…Read More