Om nom nom pancakes! While Sólrún worked this morning, I hopped on the bus to Surrey Quays shopping center and bought us some baking soda for pancake-making. The pancakes turned out slightly eggy, as I had no measuring cups and had to guesstimate my cups and teaspoons, but otherwise quite delicious, and we enjoyed a very square late breakfast ( Read more... )

Slightly bizarre day, this one. I had intended to go see Júlía's noon concert today, but didn't know where or exactly what time it was. By the time we got in touch, it was about time for me to leave, so I packed up and caught the DLR at Cutty Sark. As it turns out, transferring to the District and Circle lines at Bank is a complete disaster. The ( Read more... )

Alda, Sólrún and I met up in Camden Town this morning and spent most of the day slobbering over the amazing amazing offerings there. Seriously, that place is absolutely amazing. I am determined that when I have money to throw away at frivolities again, I'll go back there and invest in some of the vintage clothing, trunks, maps, and whatnot they ( Read more... )

Having successfully smushed everything into Alda's suitcases last night, we commenced with ( Operation: Viking Invasion of Kingston Bridge House )

I had planned to make an early start and go to the British Museum at the crack of dawn today, but laziness conspired otherwise. Ended up leaving around 11:30 after spending most of the morning on zee Internetz. Fine by me, really. I'm feeling quite lethargic these days. Alda, however, was feeling even more lethargic and was having a bad headache, ( Read more... )

Headed downtown again today to go over to Buckingham Palace and St. James' Park. When I got to St. James', I noticed a sign on the gate mentioning that the Changing of the Guard would take place in a little under an hour. Thinking "What luck!", I decided to march toward the Palace gate and try to catch the ceremony. Little did I know that the ( Read more... )

I decided it was time for me to make a proper pilgrimage to Westminster Abbey today. An excellent decision: I ended up spending four hours wandering around its halls, marvelling at the general splendor of the place and trying to contextualize all of the history engraved on its walls and tombstone-tiled floors. I was most profoundly struck by the ( Read more... )

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I took another boring day today, partly because of a certain difficulty with our situation here: I have no phone, and can't contact Sólrún without spending massive amounts of money in payphones. Also, I needed to work - can't forget all about that translation I'm contracted to do while I'm running around entertaining myself in Europe. We made a run ( Read more... )

After a lovely lie-in this morning, we went downtown to the Oxford Street - Tottenham Court Road area to run some errands. Sólrún purchased some glasses and bowls and a dishwashing brush, conspicuously absent items from her kitchen, and we met Júlía for lunch at Pret a Manger. I simply must describe this amazing sandwich I had there for lunch: a ( Read more... )