Enough about work, but I did hold up the go-live date for one day because Peter Laukens was in the country for a weekend, couldn't pass up the chance for a big weekend, and an "old-times" weekend because I first meet Pete and Ann in London 25 years ago...can you believe that! (I knew Charmaine before that from working at the Alfred).
Pete flew in on the Friday night from Germany where he'd been on a week-long (I would say, Pete would differ) junket.
The Saturday was our big day out in Old London Town. We caught the train in from Ann and Raj's at Kings Langley, got of at Euston and hit our first pub, the Euston Tap which is in a old war memorial.
Hit the West End, City, Southwark and ended up in my old neighbourhood, Whitechapel in the East End, where we caught up with Charmaine and Ian in a cool East London bar (its for hipsters now, not like I lived there, but I always knew it had potential, just 20 years too late!).
Had to have a curry in Brick Lane, and we ended up in a typical East End boozer listening to the locals do karaoke.
On the Sunday, Pete and I drove down to Charmaine and Ian's in Hampshire so Pete could see the house and we had lunch in a local pub. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding...again, it seems compulsory to have a Sunday roast in a pub.
The food in most pubs is good generally, but I find it a bit samey in the end. It could be worse though like it was 20 years ago. Cafe and coffee shop food is horrible, its all pre-packaged, even it little cafes.
Monday, Ann and I showed Pete the best the UK has to offer...Hemel Hempstead town centre. I had to get back to Wales later that day and Pete flew back to Aus.
Great to see someone from home, especially since Pete and I met in London all those years ago...we can still hit it hard...as long as we could get the last train home!
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