Brick Lane

Getting a curry for dinner on Friday nights with Simon and Sarah at Brick Lane has become a fairly regular event for us of late. The food is good, the prices are very cheap, and there is always a good laugh.

Having a quick drink after work, prior to our first Brick Lane experience.

Not too sure how many restaraunts there are along brick lane, but we are gong to try a different one each time we go. We try for a better deal each time we go too, so far ranging from 25% - 30% off the bill, free drinks and entrees. It ends up costing about 6 or 7 pounds a head, including alcohol.

We ended up with 'rice wine' at our first visit after the waited slipped, spilling the rice everywhere. As i said, always a laugh.

Brick Lane is right near White Chapel, the area where the Jack the Ripper muders occured.

The Church

So, The Church is open on Sundays, from 12noon until 3pm, I think. They don't have a licquor license, so you buy tickets and trade them in for drinks. It is not the classiest establishment, but is full of Aussies, Kiwis, South Africans, and fewer Americans and Brits.

Ryan, Sean and Ellie looking excited to get in.

Sean with his (and a few others) bags of beers. Of course there are plenty of other photos, but I was taking them and they are not as clear as the two I have put on already, for some reason. Not really in that much of a hurry to get back to the Church. Especially now that we are working, it would make it quite tough to get to work on Monday.

Brighton

Before staring work we went down south to Brighton for a day-trip with Ryan.

Us in front of the Royal Pavilion. Built in 1822 by John Nash for the then Prince of Wales (George IV).
The Brighton Pier, built in 1899. Plenty of amusements and show rides. Brighton Beach is pebbly, quite hard on the feet. Apparently the water was quite warm, the wind on teh other hand, not so warm! There were come crazy people sunbathing and swimming for some reason!

We couldn't resist! :)

As previously mentioned, when the sun comes out so does everyone. It was also the first week of school holidays, so the place was packed.

July in London

We have been very busy over the past 2 months in London. The weatehr hasn't been fantastic, but when the sun does decide tom come out, everyone makes the most of it. We had great weather on the opening weekend of the Tour de France, so went into town to check it out.

It was difficult to get good photos of the riders as they were moving so fast, this is one of the better ones!

While there we had a quick look at the Princess Dianna memorial.

We then walked to Knightsbridge to Harrods. They were having a sale, but it was still a little out of our price range in there! As you can also see, the sunshine didn't last too long!

We also headed up to Camden to the Camden Makets. It was packed up there, plenty of punk/goth style clothing stores, along with art and plenty of food stalls.