I stayed with our friends from NZ Sarah and Emma and they lived really close to my work so was pleased about that. So got to catch up with them. I also made a trip out to Greenwich where Sasha lives and spent a night with her and Megan her flatmate which was really good fun. Had some lovely weather in London and it is a lot warmer down there then up here in Glasgow at the moment.
On Friday I had the day to myself so went for a long walk along the Thames and came upon some filming, thinking I would just take a quick look I saw that it was proper Hollywood people and saw Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson so was a wee bit star struck for about half an hour!
Saturday we went to the Borough Markets which are a huge food market and met Ben and Louise there, had some yummy food and caught up with them. We went into town to Covent Garden for a while and saw the last 10 mins of the Australia/England game was very happy with the outcome, perhaps a wee bit too smug for what followed a few hours later.....
We went to the Theatre on Saturday night and saw Monty Python's Spamalot which was quite funny but we had really crap seats so didn't enjoy it as much as we might have. Although I think we had a more enjoyable evening than most NZ'er's in London that night! We went for a walk along the Thames on Saturday night to check out the Wheel in the night as well as the day.
London by day
Inside the Wheel
London by night
Big Ben
Sunday we went to Spittlefields markets which are great and then met Catherine on Oxford St for some lunch, then it was time for me to dash off for my train back up to Scotland. It was a great weekend and hopefully next year we will make it down a bit more regularly.
On Tuesday our good friends Liam and Fiona Smith had a baby girl, Cameron Zoe Smith. She is beautiful. Here is a couple of pics from the hospital
Baby Cam
Cameron Zoe Smith
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