Sam Cook

Figured i’d stick with random use of words and numbers in the titles and switch back to numbers. 

Today was another late start but only had one thing to do, Camden.  This meant breakfast and dinner in one go, the best way to do it, Full English. As the sign that led us there claimed “Best breakfast in London”. I have to agree, better may be on offer but it was certainly the best breakfast i had on the trip ;) plate was giant and portions were plentiful. 

After becoming more functional with some food and coffee in us we trekked around the markets looking at everything on offer. For those that haven’t been to Camden it’s basically just a collection of markets (that’s plural markets, not market stalls). Most of them just sell similar awesome T-shirts, but they are awesome, so we forgive them. 

Throughout my trip to London my feet had been hurting as a result of constant walking in converse-esque shoes. While generally they are comfortable, they are essentially just slabs of rubber on the soles of your feet and not well suited for massive walking. As much as i’d like to just blame the fact they are Primarni at £3 a pair, ive suffered similarly after long walks in my genuine Converse too, besides much <3 for Primark. 

Anyway back to the point, my feet hurting for 4 days already led me to want some trainers. A quick search on my phone suggested a place in Camden called Trainerd which specialises in classic trainers. Sounded pretty win so we trekked around looking for it. After much fail trekking we came to the conclusion that it has since closed down :( I’m now in the process of customizing some Adidas instead, as soon as i’ve decided on colour scheme and text they’ll be mine! Best i can come up with for text at the moment is this very blog. So if that happens they’ll definately be get posted up here. 

We stumbled across 2 very large robots stood outside one shop, Cyberdog. Intrigued we went inside to find it had 2 dancers in the first area of the store and lots of circuit board based accessories. The rest was cyber clothing which fit with the store name. It was enormous and they had a DJ raving the place up. Definately felt like the nightclub they all hang out in in the film Hackers. This is awesome! They randomly had an over 18s only section, which, if it wasn’t for the fact it had a pole dancer in it seemed pretty tame. This is where cyber face accessories existed and cyber goggles and masks. Pretty weird. I dare say annoying if you are a minor and wanting these cyber accessories. Unable to purchase them until you are 18 just because they decided the shop needed a pole dancer. Ah well, pole dancers are good. 

Time for snacks. Camden is the best place for snacks entirely thanks to Chin Chin Labs ice cream shop (pictured above). This is truly geek food. You tell the scientist your flavour choice, he pours the flavour in from a bottle and then dons his safety glasses and gloves. He then picks up his metal cup, fills it with liquid nitrogen and adds it to the mixer. This quickly makes the liquid flavour become ice cream. Win. He then hands over to his glamorous assistant who offers a variety of sauces and sprinkles. I played it safe with chocolate put Sam picked the weekly special which was Lychees and Rose Water. Freakishly it did taste exactly like Lychees.

Previous special flavours have included Peanut Butter and Jelly with Bacon sprinkles!!!! Sad i missed that one. I will upload a video of him making the ice cream at some point, I want to see if i can make it less annoying to watch, being so close to him I was changing orientation from portrait to landscape throughout and don’t want people to have to keep moving their heads :)

Finally we got some haggling on thanks to Sam and she picked up some bargain clothes at my expense, so thanks to her for making them cheap :D

Went to Leicester Square for our final meal, deciding on Bella Italia which unfortunately had a waitress of fail, aside from being very slow and distracted she also managed to not tell the kitchen about our starters. We made up for this by having a second ice cream treat of the day with dessert at Haagan Daaz restaurant. 

That was pretty much the end of the trip so back to my usual less eventful life. No more walls of text.