February - Waitangi, Birthday and Sherlock

We started the month off with a little hesitation on the Waitangi Day Pub Crawl. It's one of those things that we felt was a little bit expected of us antipodeans in London but felt we may as well give it ago. Starting the morning off early with a full English Breakfast our stomach's were well lined for a day of beer guzzling. Tripping around the circle line with so many kiwi accents felt a little odd but we soon got into the full swing off things. Other groups were well dressed in classic icons such as sheep and pavlova's but we stuck to our usual NZ t-shirts. Everyone was in high spirits and the day turned out to be a lot of fun. One disappointment was missing the haka at Westminster due to a typical long queue at the ladies loos but overall a good day out.

We also celebrated Marcus' birthday this month and not just any old one but 30! Old indeed. Marcus had to work on his actual birthday so was relatively quiet and Jess took him out for dinner at a Turkish restaurant on Upper St just down the road from our flat. After a hard week at work for Marcu's main celebrations were saved for the weekend after where we headed to the Clerkenwell with a large group of friends for a lovely 3 course meal. Afterwards we headed to Smith on Smithfields for a few night caps.

Reading books when commuting isn't so easy in London so during our time here Marcus has
taken listening to audio books on his ipod and regularly saying things like - Holmes was just driving down this road yesterday. With all this talk of Sherlock Holmes we thought we better visit his museum on Baker Street. We were welcomed in by Dr Watson who was very good at remaining in character if not a bit over the top. Marcus got to dress as Sherlock himself to get in the true spirit of the day. The mannequins were a little scary looking but an amusing day never the less.

It was also shrove Tuesday this month, also known as pancake Tuesday so what better to do than make pancakes and share them with the flatmates! Lemon, sugar, mmmm

We also checked out the Muesuem of London this month which is the history of London, including the black plague etc. We enjoyed the fact it only took us a couple of hours and we had seen the lot rather than feeling like we hadn't even seen the majority of stuff in the other mueseums in London. It has all been done up recently. Highly recommended.

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