London Day 1

trip to london for a week for my show at london miles.

day 1 started with airplane food on virgin atlantic redeye.

chicken something with mashed somethings.

then our first meal off the airplane/airport express/tube

after dropping my paintings off at the gallery...

one of those "3 entrees with rice for £5" kind of deal place

on north end of portobello road, makan :

m got duck, fish and chicken in some kind of malay curry sauces.

very good.

i got a vegetarian platter - broccoli, eggplant and tofu curry :

i normally don't order eggplant (or aubergines over there)

but these were so good on an airplane-cramped body of ours.

then later in the afternoon, we dragged our jetlagged bodies around

the neighborhood we were staying in (vauxhall-ish), and found a place

nearly closing up (only around 5pm!), called madeira star cafe.

milk tea & white coffee without. so good.

then our full english breakfasts for dinner :

mine was a vegetarian version with mushrooms,

but i should've bit the bullet and gotten a proper meat one.

they know how to cook eggs just perfect overeasy there.

both of our second trip to London started in a hazy blur for the first couple days

of sleep-deprived, post-redeye state, not even noticing that we were actually in a foreign country. (we kept thinking we were just in some other city in the US).

now that i'm back home in NYC writing these and looking at photos,

i do realize that we were actually somewhere outside the country.

ha!