Rain or Shine...

It seems like you could do a different activity in London everyday for a year and still not even scratch the surface of things to do here.  The number of possibilities is almost overwhelming!

Thus, heeding advice from friends on the best things to do, we bought tickets to the Clapham Common Food Festival.

The day didn't start well.  The rain pummelled down, turning to hail and then a wind-rain storm.  We were convinced that the outdoor event would be cancelled as a result.  But things seem to run rain or shine here (perhaps because if they cancelled things for rain, they would end up having very few events) so we put on all of our rain and cold weather gear, wore a stiff upper lip and walked to catch the bus as planned.


Luckily, things turned much brighter once we were en route and by the time we arrived, we were clearly much too heavily dressed for the beautiful weather.

Unphased, we met up with Janna and Nikki and enjoyed a fabulous afternoon of delicious food and drink. Beth met her perfect food match - the spiraled potato stick, Geoff purchased strawberries and cream from a travelling strawberry saleswoman and Janna and Nikki bought the "most delicious prosecco I have ever had" from a wine connoisseur in exchange for some seats at a table.

We spent the latter part of the afternoon watching a chocolate presentation and going to a Chilean wine tasting where the teachings were lost as we rattled away in conversation and ended the evening at a charming pub, Avalon, where we were clearly under-dressed in comparison to the much more dolled-up guests.  Well, Janna and Beth were anyway!