Exploring and Drinking Pints Along the Thames River

I'm always impressed when our visitors land at 3pm and can stay awake until a decent bedtime hour. But our recent visitor, put everyone to shame: My Uncle Bob visited us this past weekend and landed at 7am. He stayed up until 11pm... and we were drinking! Now that's impressive.

He arrived early Saturday morning, so we headed to Borough Market, one of our favorite weekend spots. We didn't stay there for very long, as we ended up stopping to eat at one of our favorite Greek restaurants.

Once we finished with lunch, we decided to walk along the Thames River. It wasn't that nice out, but we got beers along the way to keep us warm and passed by all the usual London sights: Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark, the London Eye, and Westminster Abbey. We even stopped into the Tate Modern museum (much to Aaron's dismay). We were only there for 10 minutes but we saw a Picasso! That is one of the things I love about London - you can stumble into a random place and see something amazing and historical.

Afterwards, we pub hopped until dinner at our favorite restaurant. It's an Italian place near our house that we found on TripAdvisor. Last time we were there was with Aaron's family. Aaron's dad asked for a flaming shot of Sambuca, which he tried to drink, but then the glass was too hot. So this time with my Uncle after the meal, came flaming shots of Sambuca. But don't worry, we waited until the fire went out.

This is what Aaron and I do on a lot of our weekends here; explore the city, go to our favorite spots and drink some pints : ) so it was fun to show my Uncle a little part of our life.

The next morning, we ended up walking back along the Thames from Fulham towards the city. There aren't as many sights but it was a beautiful day! And we stumbled upon a really cool pub, the Ship, where we stopped for a pint. Unfortunately, my Uncle couldn't stay for that long since he had to continue onto Paris for work. But it was so good to see him and catch up.