Borough Market is a huge food market that runs on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. It's full of delicious food and produce - cheeses, meat, seafood, vegetables, olives - and is a great place for lunch (if you can choose what to get).
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Our time in London coincided with half-term school holidays so the Science and Natural History museums we visited on a rainy day were packed. Still great though (you really need a day for each), and we got to catch up with Tim, Alicia and Jirra and compare notes.
We stayed at the YHA London Central in Bolsover St which was great - central, clean, friendly with a good cheap cafe on the ground floor. Needs some tea towels in the kitchen though...
One super-touristy but really fun thing we di...
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Maison Bertaux is a great quirkly little French cafe/patisserie in Greek St Soho. A higgledy piggledy little place that spans two buildings. They do great quiche and pastries and are very friendly.
Noel Fielding of Mighty Boosh fame had an exhibition of paintings and drawings - Brian Ferry vs the Jelly Fox - showing there. He'd been given full run of the walls and had written little notes in marker pen around the place. Here's my favourite:
More pictures:
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