This week I have decided to go down to London. I love the place almost as much as I love my home town of York. I am going to be staying at a cheap and cheerful place and having a great meal.
London is the capital city of England and can also be considered as the capital of the rest of the world, apart from Yorkshire of course. I just love the place. Every Time I go down there I come away feeling invigorated. I get filled with the vibrancy that flows from every corner of the city.
For me a trip to London starts at Kings Cross hotels. The reasons for this are simple. Most of the main railway lines stop here. Also from here you can get to anywhere in London easily. There is the tube station if you are coming from other places or want to go other places. It is the perfect starting position.
I usually stay near here in the Euston Premier Inn. It has a great location within walking distance of Kings Cross and has lots of local pubs around it that are great to enjoy a pint in. We also find the local people in the area nice to deal with. It had been a while since we were last here so we asked a local shop keeper for directions to one of the pubs. He smiled at us and said yes, there are many local pubs, but <pause> you are far to young to get it. Well I could not help but laugh. He then raised his arm and said, yes just down there they let kids in until 5pm and smiled. Well we followed his directions and came to where we wanted to be. The response was friendly, amusing and unexpected, to say the least. 45 and 60 year old people don't expect this sort of thing.
So now we are here it is time to get going. We have a meal booked at a fab place called the Goring. This is not the like the cut price place we stayed in but a luxury London hotel. Its speciality is Beef Wellington and man was it good. The only thing was they did not use any pate between the meat and the pancake that surrounded it before being enclosed in a lovely pastry crust. The fillet of Beef inside was divine. Red in the middle and tender almost like butter between the teeth. Pastry was well prepared with a good texture to it. If only I had been given a knife with some form of serrated edge on it the meal would have been perfect. When I got one that could cut, it was better.
