saturday night adam came over and we embarked on a mini ec1 pub crawl. we realised that there are about 50 pubs in my postcode (or more. no joke.) and that we only go to three of them, even though there are a bunch we have always wanted to try. we found that a few of them were closed (ec1 is next to the city, which is primarily a mon-fri community) but we did enjoy delicious beer at some new local haunts:
the rising sun, a samuel smith pub with a fireplace - score!
the castle - not bad, but smelled like a club and was playing bad music
betsey trotwood - they let me try the beers on draught before making me commit
the wilmington arms - oh my. this one smelled like bleach, which makes you wonder WHAT they had to clean up that required the involvement of chemicals. we didn't linger in this one.
the reigning champion of the evening, the rising sun
enjoying the sights along the mini pub crawl
on sunday we headed up to chapel market where we hit our favourite butcher shop, the fresh meat market, for a leg of lamb and some pork chops. we also braved the horror that is sunday afternoon at the islington waitrose, so that i could get cans of pumpkin for thanksgiving! finally a local store is stocking canned pumpkin and i don't have to go all the way to stoke newington!
with the groceries purchased, we embarked on what i hope will be the first of many "monthly cultural outings". this month we went to the museum of london, which is a 10-minute walk from my flat and is also FREE. we only had an hour to spend but got too see some really cool displays on what london was like millions of years ago.
exploring the museum
all in all it was a fun weekend and a great reminder of the variety of things london has to offer! if i ever get bored here, it is my own fault...
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