Leaving London

It didn't seem like a long time had passed, but we were already about ready to leave. We had one weekend before the flight home. A lot of British food must get tried before we leave London! OK. All at once:

CREAM TEA. Delicious, especially under this gorgeous dome in an old bank-building. Darjeeling tea, while I waited for my freshly baked scones and clotted cream and jam. 

And waited. 

And waited. 

And because I waited so long, it was free! Win.

The scones were delicious too! But I'm pretty sure the jam was Smuckers.

TREACLE TART. Horrible. Hot tea and Treacle Tart from Tescos. We went to a few other bakeries but they only make them on specific days, and they sell out really fast. Apparently somebody likes this strange concoction of breadcrumbs+sugar syrup in a pie shell.

HALLOUMI BURGER: Delicious. Granted, this is not a British thing, more Turkish and Eastern European, but WOW yum, what an Umami alternative to veggie-burgers or regular burgers. Those are rolls from my (really stupid get really hot even on the outside) oven and beautiful tomato spinach and avocado from a market. (more on that later)

So that was all we wanted to try in England, so with that out of the way, we could enjoy ourselves.

My boys being modellicious. Theodore has his jacket on backwards either as a fashion statement or because I couldn't get him to actually wear it, when I asked him.

And Joy oh Joy, Emeline and Eliana came to visit with their mother and played around with my camera and it's prime manual focus 135mm lens. These ones came out pretty nice, I thought, good job, girls!

We went out English Country Dancing (a few times, that last week, actually) If it looks like there are more women there than men, it's true. They had ties to wear to indicate leaders vs. followers. Apparently British men aren't too in touch with their dancer side.

On our way through the city. This is how I probably looked basically every single day, only I finally got Brian to document it. These little children walked about 3 miles a day. (!)

Borrough Market, where they have EVERYTHING. Fresh fruit and vegetables, hot food, ice cream, fresh and aged cheese, meats, ice cream.... Everything. This is their French section. So pretty and colorful.

And speaking of colorful, we found this random little market looking for something quite different (which I shall not mention, since we never found it) and someone had thought it would be nice for the telephone pole to wear a scarf. How cool. 

Some snapshots of us at the park.

And finally some last snapshots to show you London:

 I wasn't the only one to think that "TO LET" signs all around the city looked like "TOILET" especially at an angle, from far away. 

In London, they drive on the wrong side of the road, but they feel like they can park anywhere in any direction. The also have to put arrows and words at every intersection saying which direction you should look to find oncoming traffic. My camera and I were lucky not to get mowed down taking this shot smack dab in the middle of this photogenic little street.

WE'RE HOME NOW! Woo Hoo!