A 'Going Away/We Got Married Today' Party!

Hello!

Right. Well, I've been in Australia for months now & I've spent that time generally hanging about, but haven't bothered to put anything up here because I've also been spending most of my mental time stressing about getting my new UK Visa. The sheer amount of energy I spent worrying/stressing about said Visa was most definitely unwarranted - I have in my possession a new 5 year UK Visa (!!!!!!!!!) and a whole lot of time/energy to spend doing something other than worrying about it so I thought it might be time to pick up where I'd left off around here...

Last year was fairly hectic & I have a backlog of photographs I want to share with you but for now I thought I'd post about that time we got married at the Camden Town Hall & had a nice Going Away/We Got Married Today party at the brewery with all of our friends...

The day went something like this:

Caught bus into town/Headed to Store Street Espresso for pre-getting married coffee & cake times/wandered to town hall in the lovely grey drizzle of London/Met a few very wonderful friends that agreed to be our witnesses/Got married/Walked to the pub for some drinks/Caught the Tube to Bermondsey, and spent the rest of the evening drinking/eating and generally having a lovely time! We are so stupidly lucky to have such amazing friends (and to have been able to have a super relaxed party in the brewery - which we are oh-so-grateful for) 

Obviously all of the photographs are of food. I do not apologise.

Ice cream by the genius La Grotta Ices

Cheese (of course): Stilton/Satwley/Montgomery's Cheddar/Tunworth/Bermondsey Frier

The most amazing Tarts/Rum Babas by the super talented Poppy & Sebastian 

I didn't take many photographs so I missed out on getting pictures of a few things (including getting someone to take one of us!) but hopefully everyone had a good time and ate some delicious food! 

We were really lucky to be able to get almost everything from the incredible makers of Spa Terminus where we both work - and are so crazy grateful to our friends who did things like bake 20 baguettes fresh for us, make amazing veggie friendly Borscht (and remember to get bowls/spoons which we totally forgot to organise!), make a special trip to buy cheese & cycle it back to the arch, let us have a party in the brewery, procure ice cream, pour their own beer, turn up to a party on a Thursday evening after working all day and just be seriously fantastic all-round amazing people! No wonder we can't wait to get back to London... 

I'm not eloquent enough to write about any of this in a decent way, and I'm sure I've forgotten to mention lots and I'm really sorry but basically we had the best time ever at our Going Away/We Got Married Today party... thank you. 

Copenhagen (Part V): Mikkeller Bar

The Mikkeller Bar celebrated its 3rd birthday on the last day of our Copenhagen trip so we headed there after a detour to Christiania & camped out for the afternoon. I was pleasantly  surprised that the entire street had been closed for the bar, markets, street food & a brilliant Jazz band. I did my best at CBC by drinking all the sour beer in the joint so I switched back to cider for the Mikkeller Bar party. It was a great way to end our time in Copenhagen. They definitely know how to throw a street party, in a relaxed, fun kind of way. The best part: Watching a family carry their heavy outdoor table setting from their apartment, organise it on the street, eat dinner, have some drinks & carry it back home again. 

Everyone still in town from the festival was at the bar that afternoon. It's a strange feeling to be in another country & bump into people you know all over the place.

These guys played an epic 5 hour set. No time for cigarette breaks!

Quieting down in the evening

I love the tranquil spaces you glimpse behind buildings in Copenhagen. 

Enjoying the party

Edinburgh next. I'm already planning my next trip there!

Xx

Berlin (Part III) Beer & Baked Goods

Obligatory pictures of beer/food (if donuts can be considered food...oh wait, the filling was made of fruit so it definitely counts.) Being Vegetarian in a non-english speaking country was totally fine, falafel was our go-to meal & we pretty much never get tired of it so no complaints here! I had envisaged eating vegetables covered in cheese which I would also have had no complaints about...

Aside from the 4 day donut crawl that our trip became we also managed to get around to a few brew pubs. I have it on good authority that the beer was good most places and I can definitely say that the cider at Hops & Barley is good but I'd be careful of it if you're ever there! 

I got horribly drunk in this fine establishment. All I could think was how did I end up here, in Berlin, so very drunk? When the room stopped spinning I realised that I had perhaps had too much cider & getting to Berlin just involved a short plane trip. All very simple to the sober mind.

Hops & Barley

Schalander Brew Pub

Flammkuchen!

Some of the many, many donuts

Delicious baked goods
(We managed some self restraint & didn't buy the GIANT donut we encountered at this bakery. Perhaps next time.)

Seriously. We ate a shit tonne of donuts.

Not eating donuts again any time soon

If you ever find yourself in Berlin I can highly recommend Donuts & Falafels since that's about all we ate our entire time there. Washed down with a lot of beer & club-mate. 

Xx

Pizza from a Big Green Egg

Farewell pizza at Ben's new work on Thursday evening. There was a Big Green Egg. It was slightly scary but it cooked the pizza & kept us warm outside, both good things. Three people made pizza dough & there were crazy delicious toppings. Home made pickled eggplant, wild mushrooms, tomato, basil, artichoke, olives, capers, parmesan, mozzarella, caerphilly & the parsley/walnut pesto I made was there too! It was lovely to meet everyone Ben works with at the brewery - I even drank half a beer!  

Y U M.

All the dough

Yes - that is a whole wheel of cheese - Caerphilly, so good.

We may have been taking the pizza out of the crazy egg with a saw but I'd say it turned out pretty well...

Xx!