Happy New Year from London!
Posted in London on 12/31/2009 08:23 pm by dana
We had a fun New Year’s Eve in London today!
We started out our day at Borough Market, where we got some tasty lunch (roast meat sandwiches and grilled cheese, onions and pickles) and picked up some provisions for dinner tonight. Borough Market is one of our favorite places in London, and it was a ton of fun to stock up for New Year’s Eve there.
Buying some bread.
Me and my favorite “salt beef and horseradish sauce” sandwich – yumm!
Cheese lady.
Grilled cheese with onions and pickles.
After we got back to Whitney and Michael’s, we began cooking for dinner! We made a tasty rib roast, yorkshire pudding, brussels sprouts, and Michael’s famous roast potatoes and root vegetables. Yum!!!
Tasty Borough Market meat before we cooked it.
It’s dinner time!
After dinner, we enjoyed some post-dinner drinks – champagne, London Pride Lager, and lovely Winter Pimms (a British tradition?)!
We also managed to observe a bunch of our respective traditions.
Singing Auld Lange Syne.
Eating herring at midnight (my family’s tradition).
The Scottish Hogmanay tradition of “first footing” — allowing in a dark haired person, a tall person, and a person bearing a gift (that’s me with coal).
And the Mauritian tradition of opening the doors to allow out with the bad, and in with the good for the New Year.
Happy 2010 from London!!!!!