It’s Day 1 of our adventures in London. We’ve landed in the morning, are quite jetlagged after not really getting any sleep due to the excitement of it all, and now it’s time to get acclimated.
After the hour long, and very expensive £100 ($160) cab ride into the city we’ve found our temporary home for the next month while we find a more permanent apartment.
Knowing that we must keep ourselves awake, we drop our bags and hit the town. In a short walk we find ourselves at St. Paul’s Cathedral. WOW. Already impressed and it’s only hour two. We continue on with random exploring for a few more hours then decide to head back and do some grocery shopping.
Around the corner from our apartment are two markets: Waitrose and Tesco. We divide and conquer and look at the egg prices in each to get a grasp of store pricing. Should take about two minutes, you’d think?
Not wanting to give away too quickly that I’m a foreigner and don’t really know my way around, I quickly walk the store, doing a more in-depth exploration of the refrigerated aisles. Hmm…that’s interesting. There are about fifty types of butter and equal amounts of cream and milk, but no eggs to be found?
That’s ok, I lived in Rome. They don’t put eggs in the fridge here, but they should be by the dairy right? It’s at about this time that David walks in from his task, completed, and we continue the search together to no avail. Eventually we ask for help and find our eggs on the shelf by the bread.
This just commenced an hour long exploration of the grocery store. Our favorite products:
- · Puppy patterned toilet paper
- · Two 750ml bottles of Leffe (Belgian Beer) for £5
- · Orangina Light
Welcome to living in Europe! Throw out all your preconceived notions of how things should be – they don’t refrigerate the eggs!!
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