Weekends go by faster in London

This weekend just flew by! I can't believe that it's Sunday night already.

Things I learned this weekend


Spillage equals lickage...

Emma and Emily at The Court!

Instead of just saying "party foul" when something spills (while out at night), in London they say "spillage equals lickage" and the person who spilled has to actually lick up what they spilled.  Needless to say that is one part of British culture we decided to ignore. How did we learn this fun little fact? We met some locals on Thursday night at our new favorite location The Court- a pub a short walk away from our flat with excellent student deals on Thursday nights! We also learned that people from Manchester think that Londoners are 'snooty'. The girl we met actually pushed her nose up with her finger and said 'snoooooty!' ...also pubs here close at 1am so when the bar closed we wandered on home. 

 There are an infinite number of vintage shops around here...

We don't have classes on fridays so after sleeping in late- which was badly needed after our Thursday night adventures- we set out to find some vintage stores in the area. Well we didn't have far to go and we stumbled upon store after store. They had a lot of fur hats and jackets- Emily also found some nice blue spandex pants!! In one of the shops there was some great fun/funky swing music playing and when we told the guy- I assume he was the owner- we liked it he gave us two CDs of the swing music! It's a fun mix of all sorts of swing music - now we listen to it in our flat and it's absolutely fantastic! 

Avocados are cheaper in London...

On Saturday morning we went to Portobello Market which is just a few tube stations away. It's a two mile long farmers market essentially full of nick-nacks, bags, paintings, fruit, bred, pastries- basically anything you could think of! They were selling avocados 4 for 1 pound! Obviously we took advantage of this and came home with a total of 9 avocados. I also got the most delicious loaf of bread for 1 pound also. We will be going back there without a doubt! It was absolutely freezing though - well 26 but considering it's been in the mid 40s since we got here 26 felt bitter cold! To try and make ourselves feel better we kept bringing up how much colder it was at home- this helped but we had to leave the market by 11 because we could no longer feel our feet or faces! It was a good thing we decided to leave when we did because as we were leaving it seemed like hundreds of people were pouring out of the tube station. 

Burgers are cheap and bad in London...

Saturday night we went back to The Court for dinner - 3.50 for a burger, chips (french fries!) and a pint. We thought it was quite the deal! Which it was but it the burger was one of the worst I can remember and the fries were cold. Oops! But we were full and it was fun anyway! We came home early and to our pleasant surprise found some quality American Idol on TV- followed by Spice World. 

Crepes are delicious...

So we ate delicious crepes twice this weekend! On Saturday we wandered around the market with amazing crepes full of Nutella and strawberries. And then today (Sunday) we found the best gelato place near where we live and got crepes with nutella and two scoops of gelato. It was sooo good. Allie and I split one but Emma and Emily each conquered a whole one by themselves. We were so excited when they came out that I forgot to take a before picture- but there are some pretty exceptional after pictures. 

There is such a thing as bad Thai food...

Tonight we decided to get some Thai take out from down the street- it tasted like soap. Bottom line? Don't eat out here- not worth it at all. I will be saving my money to eat in Italy next weekend!