Spent a lovely weekend with my Wife in London for my birthday, it was a big one (60) and so we splashed out a bit and stayed in a hotel for a couple of nights visiting several swanky restaurants for lunches and dinners and managed to squeeze in some retail therapy too! Fortunately the weather played ball as well and we had delightful (warm) sunny days and not too cold evenings (see picture above!) On one of the days we also went over to Fitzrovia and met up with my Daughter who is studying at UCL and has her digs over there, nice to catch up with her and hear all about her escapades during freshers week, she seems to be having fun, certainly burning the candle at both ends!
My birthday corresponded with the London Marathon and so the centre of town was really crowded, lot's of people milling around in space blankets and lot's of public "hobbling" due to the inevitable strains and sprains that people get, still, it's certainly a spectacle to behold, amazing energy in the crowd even several hours into the event! I snapped a picture as we walked over the Embankment (Big Ben in the background) of the runners at the 25 mile mark, I felt very glad I wasn't running!
For lunch on Marathon day we popped into the "Lowlander" which is one of my favourite Belgian "beer" bars in London, got talking to some chap who'd clearly just finished the race and was getting stuck into some much needed calorific sustenance in the form of chips, mayonnaise and a funky glass of some strange (and probably really strong) Belgian beer! We asked him how he did, he said he was quite pleased with his run, completing the course in two hours and thirty minutes, our jaws nearly hit the floor, that's pretty much a professional/elite pace, we were suitably in awe!
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