Borough Market is my favorite public outdoor market in London, (second place goes to Marylebone). I am a girl of habit and when I find foods that satisfy my taste, I rarely try anything new. So when I go to Borough Market, I always get the same goods: coffee from
Monmouth Coffee, a big hunk of
comte cheese, mushroom pate, fresh bread - with rosemary and figs or olives, and a bunch of fruits & veg. People, including moi, queue for miles for tasty Spanish
chorizo rolls with peppers and rocket. There's a pretty cathedral nearby where I sit and relax and eat with hundreds of others.
Some days after the market I walk along the River Thames and visit
Tate Modern. I'm not a huge fan of modern art (it took me a long time to understand and then come to like Mark Rothko) but I enjoy a lot of the work at Tate. I often take visitors there to see the great view of the city from the cafe.
It's snowing in London and -- just like in Seattle -- the city has ground to a halt. The Guardian reported one in five people did not make it to work. Hardly any buses or overland trains are running and the tube is a mess. It's supposed to go on all week and maybe we'll even experience some exciting blizzards. As if the British don't talk about weather enough... Friends and family who've lived here for a while have said they haven't seen snow like this in decades. We made a snowman in our back garden, but I can't find the cord to upload my digitals so I took these photos off the Guardian website so you can see that I'm forreals!
