The silver lining

If you've read my previous blog post, you'll know I had a failed Brighton trip. So instead of going back home and crying out our eyes, we decided to not let that incident spoil our day and have our own fun.

We went to West Hampstead for lunch. There's this small but nice little cafe, called the "Wet Fish Cafe" that XP recommended. The food and drinks were unique, to say the least.

We shared crab omelette, lemongrass sea-bream, chorizo with mash, some kinda pancake thing, and tomato lentil soup. There was also this nice fizzly beer that's made with champagne yeast (don't ask me how different yeasts affect the taste), and a wide variety of smoothies.

There was a kiwi mango and loganberry one, and a banana blueberrry lychee one... I wanted the lychee, but with kiwi and mango, so I asked if that was possible. The waitress didn't even bat an eyelid. Now, thats service...

After lunch we took a bus down to Regent's Park and walked along the canal passing through the park all the way to Camden Town. It was great! Perfect sunshine, nice green grass, walking along the canal...

We popped up to street level (the canal was like a storey down from the street) at one point and discovered this watering hole that had a huge private garden. With benches, shelters, heaters and all. On a bright sunny day like that, drinking a beer with friends in a garden is definitely a fine way to relax and to enjoy.

Then we walked back down to the canal, and within a minute we emerged at Camden Town.... You know along the way I saw a signboard, "waterways of London". I can imagine in the 1800s, one major transportation around London was the canals...

We went around shopping in Camden before we headed back, but not before we settled our dinner at Belgo's. Yep, there's a Belgos near Camden.


Pretty flowers at Regent's Park!


This is NOT the canal. Its just a pond in Regent's Park with lots of birds (ducks, swans, pigeons... think bird flu). BEAUTIFUL.


The canal that we walked along. There were lots of houses by the canal side, and lots of small canal boats were parked along the side. Saw this house with a porch facing the canal - then thought about how nice it would be to have a BBQ right there.