Street Market, Palace & Bars

Today was fun and tasty. Eileen's cousin John, who just moved to London, came to the area we are staying to experience one of the most popular street markets in the city.  Eileen met up with him to catch up while Barb and I explored the market on our own. It was really fun and full of street food from around the world. 

Giant meringue

Paella guy

This guy was often playing 4 people st once. 

I skipped the fruit and went for the meat. 

Barb and I chose the most delicious Moroccan for lunch( technically a late breakfast). We followed it with som corn cake with coconut custard found at a Brazilian stand. I could live off of that alone. 

 John & Eileen. 

We all met up at a bar for some afternoon beer and deeply thoughtful discussion on geology and academia. Eileen's cousin, John, is super brainy post doc researcher. 

We headed to the Piccadilly Circus area for a great cheese lunch!

Isle of Mull cheddar, Buffalo blue, driftwood goat cheese with goose salami, smoked duck breast, air dried mutton -shaved thin, Wild boar charizo ...SO GOOD. 

Then, we walked off a bit of our 2nd lunch and strolled over to see Buckingham Palace. 

The queen was spotted hanging out a window waving at us and appearing to flash us.  I shit you not. 

Every palace visit deserves a cocktail on a boat docked along the Thames. The weather in London continued being like paradise and at one point Eileen was shocked that there was a woman in a bikini sunbathing.  

We ended our day with john with dinner at a touristy place called the princess of wales. The food wasn't quite as spectacular as the sign but we enjoyed the company, for sure.