Within hours of booking our next winter escape to South-East Asia, we received a request to go to London to work at a customer site, ASAP. We raced to get our UK work visas, which actually required us to go to Edmonton to get all of our fingerprints taken! 2 weeks later, we found ourselves in London, UK for the next month.
The customer's office is located right in central London (Piccadilly Circus) and they put us up in a cute apartment only 5 stations away from the office, so we got to experience the full-on London ambiance - pubs, shows, tourists, endless night-life, shopping, and a huge assortment of yummy restaurants. What a great experience!
Food-wise, our highlight was an amazing raw-vegan restaurant called Tanya's Cafe (www.tanyascafe.com). Since the restaurant owner is our co-worker's wife, we were fortunate enough to get a sneak-peek tasting of the upcoming new Christmas cocktails. They were so creative and the flavours were amazingly interesting! We also sampled several raw-vegan snacks including kale-chips, a variety of vegan "cheeses", cashew "sour-cream", and raw nachos. Everything was SO tasty and we were all blown away by the unique and delicious experience! We had no idea raw food could be so amazing and we can't wait to go back - Jen's really hoping we will have time to take some un-cooking classes there next time! :)
Since we worked a lot while we were there (plus it rained a fair bit), we didn't get a lot of sight-seeing in, but we did manage to fit in one day of checking out the typical tourist sights.
We really enjoyed the trip and were sad that it ended so quickly... but hopefully we'll get to return again in the spring! :)
