And the Journey Continues

On Saturday, I finally made it to London--9 hours late! The trains weren't running into London, so the London Express was free. So only an hour after gather all of my belongings, I finally met up with Nish south of London Bridge (Borough)...

Ultimate Fighting: My weary body and my hungry stomach duked it out and my stomach came out the victor. Nish and I headed out (Okay everyone, if you ever go to London get the Zone 1/2 Day Pass for 5.60 instead of the Zone 1/2 Single Pass for 4.00. Sigh) to Tinseltown (Station: Farringdon), a popular restaurant, because it's one of the few places open 24 hours. I went for The Full Monty (English Breakfast), which they served American sized. It was kind of gross and delicious at the same time.

We then walked over London from 1am to 3:30am, with a pit stop at Buddha Bar. I've actually have never been to the ones in New York and Paris, so it was quite fun, and my drink--Tea Rossa--was divine (plum umeshu dento, rose hip tea, orange bitters, lemon).

YUMMMM (Also had Islandic Schnapps and Tonic: Woohoo Layovers!)

Sunday was an amazingly productive sightseeing day as well. I must say that I'm quite impressed with Nish's tour guide skills...if econ/finance doesn't work out, he has another career calling. 1000% better than what I could have done, and with his help, I managed to basically see everything and get a very good overview of the city.

Surprising food highlight: The new Westfield mall (Station: White City/Shepard's Bush...for all those in California, yeah that chain!) has a wonderful posh 'food court' complete with a champagne bar and crazy architecture. We grabbed lattes and a Red Berry Cheese cake that was so good, it would be worth going out

of Bobst at 3am to get!

(This picture is really just to make Odalo jealous if he is reading this)

A whirlwind of activity basically sums up my 24 hour London visit, complete with a few surprise encounters with New York friends =D