People, includ­ing myself, gen­er­ally com­plain about the food in Eng­land. I have dis­covered the solu­tion. When eating out, insist that sluis takes you to good Thai res­tu­ar­ants with Cheap Eats stick­ers and eat all other meals at pollyanna_n’s. The red curry was delish and the cambozola(some sort of gor­gonzola meets camem­bert) at Jo’s is heav­enly. Toast with per­fect ricotta for break­fast, superbly mar­in­ated salmon for dinner with great rose. I think I’m eating better here than any­where else in the entire trip.

Yes­ter­day was great. Star­ted out at Camden Mar­kets with Richard Rannard, old friend from hanging around Sydney Uni, met up with another friend, Michela Led­widge (Jamie Walker’s cousin for those wot might recall), had coffee, went to the Lord of the Rings exhib­i­tion at the Sci­ence Museum with sluis and her delight­ful friend Ryan (oh my, the cos­tumes, the scrolls, the swords, the cos­tumes, the life size sleep­ing Boromir, the swords, the cos­tumes, the elven intric­a­cies, the elven tele­scope, Leg­olas’ white knives and bow…) (and can I men­tion again, I love my press pass?), then met up with the ever-gor­geous steam­punk, went to the Nat­ural His­tory Museum, looked at the blue whale, looked at some stun­ning aerial pho­to­graphs out­side and came home. (Okay, so maybe London isn’t all bad.…*grin*)

Off sight­see­ing with Jo today, in Rochester.