Yellow Fever

Saturday night I travelled right across London to a workmate’s house for a housewarming party, “A Touch of Yellow” being the theme, luckily I own a yellow skirt! I met Anne when I worked in Edinburgh and she now lives here, although works away so I never see her. Most of the guests turned out to be PwC people, and it was good to meet some new faces, although most are unfortunately based in a different building to me.

Even if you “try” to socialise with Brits in London you inevitably end up with a small handful of locals and a bunch of “foreigners”. This party was no exception, Australians, Canadians, Germans, Scottish, Irish and of course your token kiwis were present.

I left the party just after 10pm as I had arranged to meet some Aussie friends in the Walkabout, a trashy yet fun chain of Aussie pubs. They were at the Temple branch, one I hadn’t been to before, can’t say it was my favourite specimen but I still had a good time, after the initial shock of paying £7 door entry!!!! That’ll teach me for showing up late.

At the end of the night we had a lovely wee walk over the bridge with beautiful view s of the London Eye and other landmarks. We also came across two cars with romantic going-on’s going on in the back seat! Of course Azz had to bang on the window and say hello =) We trawled the streets for 20mins looking for appropriate night buses and in the end gave in and got a taxi, and from their house Niki & I caught a night bus home (via McDonalds). The joys of London travel!