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Food Tour and 19,000 steps

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 Lots of food. Lots of steps.

Today we went on long food focused tour around the Borough Market on the south bank of the Thames near Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station. Our guide, Isaac (redshirt in this video), was entertaining, and told informative and engaging stories about the area. The market is a covered food market with everything from oysters to coffee.  


Our first stop was The Ginger Pig for amazing sausage rolls.






Next we went to Santa Nata to have a pastel de nata. This was a foodie bucket list item for Libby who first heard of them from the British Baking Show! It was wonderful!


We also had some good fish and chips. 

We also tasted some cider from Somerset, some delicious British cheese and we ended with sticky toffee pudding and ale at a beautiful pub named Boot and Flogger. It felt very special because we were lead down into the basement where the kitchen is and ate at a table as a group. It was a really good tour and our guide was a delight.


Our afternoon activities included walking all over creation to see some sights around London.




Westminster Abbey

Buckingham Palace


Part of the several thousand steps consisted of walking up and down St. James Park (see the water in the above picture) where we identified several new birds! 

We saw:

  • Egyptian Goose
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Eurasian Moorehen
  • Gray Heron
  • Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • Eurasian Blue Tit
  • Common Shelduck
  • White Pelican
There were a lot of pigeons, geese, some swans, and I'm pretty sure some cormorant and a pelican on the rocky island on the east side of the lake. On the west side of the lake there felt like a some undocumented avian war between geese on the land and geese in the water. We witnessed narrow escapes, and aquatic assaults on the island. It was gripping stuff. 










My picture of the shelduck isn't good, and the Eurasian Bluetit is really small and hard to capture a picture off with the phone.

We ate near Victoria Station at a place called Bills, and came home to our sweet sweet soft couches. Tomorrow we go to Winchester Cathedral. 
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Location: 11 Pembridge Gardens, London W2 4EA, UK

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  1. JeremyMarch 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM

    Boot a Flogger… sounds… exciting? Seeing new birds though, definitely exciting!

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  2. AnonymousMarch 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM

    Birds and a good tour. This is my favorite of your days so far. Very exciting!

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