city field trip!

with the stress of flat hunting behind me, i actually got to do...whatever i wanted this saturday morning. crazy. Beth had told us about a place near london bridge called burroughs market, which apparently has all sorts of fresh foods, etc. it is quite a popular place so we had to meet at the angel station at 9:30 (waaaay early for the weekend) in order to beat the crowd.

the weather this morning was a bit insane. we woke up to thunder and driving rain. by the time we got to the market, it was sunny and beautiful! whatevs. the market was HUGE and awesome, with every kind of food for sale:


mushrooms!


olive oil and assorted vinegars! (apricot, mmm)


quail! pheasant! i don't really know!


bangers on a bun! hahahahaha.



the bangers (sausage for y'all americans) smelled too good to pass up, so we stopped for a quick "brunch". i had wild boar sausage with onions, spicy ketchup and rocket (mixed greens). it was delicious! Christine mentioned that i am slowly eating the whole forest between my hare meatloaf and now wild boar. hee hee.

after brunch, we dropped some things back at Beth's then took the #38 bus down to piccadilly circus to do some shopping. it was POURING when we got off the bus and windy too. ah london, your fickle weather is somewhat amusing.

first we went to fortnum and mason, which smelled like constant comment tea (orangey cinnamon), featured wall-to-wall red carpet, and price tags i couldn't really afford. :-)

since it was so drippy out, we cabbed it over to john smith, which is another department store (think macy's). i needed some bedding for my new flat! not quite ready to commit to a color scheme, the girls helped me find some jersey cotton white sheets (flannelettes here), a mattress pad, and two pillows. i also got a set of towels and washcloths. the bill? £95! pretty decent, eh? Beth offered to loan me a quilt until i decide on colors.

i was too cheap to get in a cab, so we took the underground all the way back to angel. dragging around three shopping bags worth of fluffy bedding was interesting, but somehow we managed to make it home. yay for productive saturday!