As I’ve been getting active with couchsurfing this is what to do with your couchsurfer if you only have a few hours in Camden! I met Antoine and showed him the flat before we headed out with the overall plan to have a drink on Primrose Hill and admire the view. We started off by…
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Cultural weekend in London
This weekend I had my first couch surfer. Couchsurfing is where you stay with someone – often sleeping on their couch, sometimes they have a spare bed/room. I did this to mixed reviews in the US (what can I say – just be careful if you’re travelling as a single woman..) and wanted to host…
Sightseeing with the Brazilian in London!
It been really fun not working at the moment – it’s allowed me to be a tourist in my own city and this Sunday evening I was again touristing with someone I met whilst travelling! I met Cecilia and her friends in a hostel in Punta del Diablo Uruguay. They were all from Brasil –…
Karaoke Krazi! The best karaoke in London?!
This weekend my favourite stalker Lucy tracked me down to London. The first thing we did when she was off the train was to head to the St Pancras Champagne Bar – apparently longest champagne bar ever! (But not the longest continuous bar – it’s made up of booths and mini bars). This is the…
Caning Camden in a few hours
I finally got to meet Margarita on Sunday afternoon – she is a friend of a friend – we both met Aaron whilst couchsurfing at his in Vegas. As Margarita is now living in London Aaron put us in contact so I could at least show her around my neighbourhood and that’s what we did…
A brief break in Bath
As I mentioned in my post about adjusting to life back in London, my parents are moving from Bedfordshire to Bath. As their unemployed daughter I got to help with last minute packing and driving car number three up to Bath. We arrived in Bath on Monday evening and had a lovely meal at Clayton’s…
Shoreditch cocktails
Friday night is cocktail night! This week the Gin Club met at the Fever-Tree Tonic pop up bar in Hoxton Square. It was a reduced showing – this time just Catherine and me, Kimmy was meant to be there but got stuck at work 🙁 Anyway Cat and I had a great time with the…
Adjusting to life back in London
I’ve been back in London for a month now and people keep on asking how it’s going. Well it’s going good. I’m not finding the transition from travelling to being back in London too bad at the moment, but I think that might be because I’m not yet back in full time employment and even…
Gin by the pool – an afternoon in Chiswick
My procrastination has reached whole new levels… On Wednesday instead of rewriting/finishing my CV I answered the call of Tiva, who had the day off work and headed to sunny Chiswick to visit our friend Alex, who also happens to have a pool at her block of flats. It was an easy choice, I’ve got…
Cocktail crawl in Islington
So Friday night in London means drinks, especially in the summer. This Friday those drinks were cocktails (again!). I met my friends Tiva and Susan in 69 Colebrook Row (aka the bar with no name). They are serious about cocktails here, and it shows with flawless versions of the classics reimagined. My friends adored their…