We headed into the city to go to Primark, as I needed some new jeans. The Primark on Oxford Street is absolutely massive! I was blown away. And everything is so cheap!! It was pretty amazing! I got my jeans and some other things we needed for a ridiculously good price. Once we were done with our little shopping spree we went back to Camden to have lunch at the markets. Harrison and I had sandwiches, because you know, backpackers budgets. Even if you aren't actually eating the market food I still think it's really cool to just sit amongst the stalls and take everything in. There's so much to see and smell, it's really amazing. When we were finished with lunch we started walking to a pub, where one of Rhylka's friends works. It was so windy, it made the walk quite unpleasant. It was a relief to finally get there. We settled in for a long night at the pub. I had the best burger I have ever eaten. It was a chickpea, feta and mint patty on a bun with guacamole. So yum! We met a bunch of Rhylka's friends and had a few drinks. It was a pretty good night!
Day 2 with Rhylka, Harrison and I woke up with horrible colds! We felt really yuck. We had planned to go on a walking tour of London, with the Sandemans company I keep writing about. However 10 minutes into the tour we were absolutely hating it. Our guide was just really bad. He was trying to be funny and really wasn't, and just didn't tell us that much information. So we left the group to do our own thing. We went into the National Gallery for a bit, but weren't overly taken away by it. We left that and went in search of China town. I love walking around London. There is so much to discover, with all the little hidden alleys and small streets. We never actually made it to Chinatown, however we did accidentally stumble across Jamie Oliver's Italian resturant!
It was a place Rhylka had wanted to eat at, so we had lunch there. It was amazing! I had gnocchi and it was so good.
After lunch we tried to FaceTime Harrison and Rhylka's family, but had no luck, our wifi was too bad. We parted ways and Harrison and I headed back to the hostel (but first to the grocery store for cold and flu tablets) and lazed around there for the rest of the day.
The next day we woke up in even worse condition than the previous day. Being sick overseas really sucks. All you want to do is curl up in a familiar, comfortable bed and sleep and drink tea and hug your mum. But instead you've got to wake up in a bunk bed in a room with 8 other people and just get on with your day, no matter how crap you feel. Rhylka met us at our hostel in the morning and we finally manged to FaceTime their family, which was really nice. We were kind of on the fence about going out for the day, but decided to head out anyway as we could always come back if we were feeling too awful. It was an absolutely beautiful day, so we decided to have a picnic on Primrose Hill at Regents Park. We stopped off at our faithful Lidl on the way there to get our picnic supplies and then headed off towards the hill. It was so hot. Like uncomfortably warm, but really nice to have some sunshine. We actually all got a bit burnt which is kind if funny. We sat on the hill in the sun and ate strawberries, cheeses, avocado, hommus and celery and drank wine. Life is tough.
As the afternoon progressed and our cold and flu tablets started to fade, we decided it was time to go home. We all headed back to the underground, where we had to say our goodbyes to Rhylka, which was quite sad. However we had had a wonderful 3 days together! And we are both excited to see her again when we get home.
Today we are just mooching around the hostel in an attempt to keep warm and fight off these colds. We are on a 9 hour bus trip tomorrow to Paris, so we really need to try our best to be better by then.
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