Saturday, August 05, 2006

Trip to Britain -- Day 2 -- London Market Walks 1

We all got up at around 10am. A good sleep worths a million after taking long-haul flight! We had a cup of coffee and then Luica and I went to Portobello Market.

Crowds of people were squeezing into the market and I could really say we're rubbing shoulders! One horrible (but exciting thing) happened - an Asian woman suddenly slapped another (Jewish?) young lady's face. At first, I though it's more like women fighting for men, but it turned out to be pickpocketing. Anyway, it became HIGHLIGHT of the day!

We bought a strawberry and cream pancake and a box of fried seafood (with mussels, king prawns and crab claws) from the market and sat down to enjoy them on stairs. Wonderful food - at least a bargain with loads of seafood.

(Drinking at the George Inn ->)
We then headed to Borough Market - a food market, and I bought some dried cranberries. Later, we got ourselves some drinks at the George Inn. It calimed to be well known by Shakespeare and Dickens for its hospitality - well, who knows? :D Anyway, we spent the time there before the dance performance at Roundhouse.

The performance was TERRIFIC, with music and dance - the vibrance was intense and every audience enjoyed the freedom of moving around so much. GREAT show! By the way, it's called 'Fuerzbruta' - gotta find out what it meant.


After the performance, Brad joined us for dinner at Canary Wharf. We had fabulous chicken-wing meal. Sorry for Brad. He couldn't choose anything from the menu - too oily I guess! We then went to a pub for a dinrk after the meal. Nice!



One important thing I did today was to purchase the Oyster card (equivalent to HK's Octopus card), see:


1 comment:

Luica said...

Apparently, Fuerzabruta is new show from the creators of De La Guarda, which is very similiar to Fuerzabruta.

I really enjoyed the performance and was glad that you came with me. By the way, I am wearing the t-shirt today!