Winey nights in London

So there have been a few nights now in London where I have hung out with my first British contact upon crossing the ocean. I was referred by a recruitment advertising client in Toronto to meet with a true brit here by the name of Peter Phillips to show me the ropes of how to find a job in this recruitment market and get to know the ways and customs of Londoners. While Peter and I have only managed to get together a handful of times, they have been enriched with educating experiences about Britain and lots of great food and wine. I soon realised that we are both lovers of wine, such that every time we meet up we order 2 bottles...and that's just for the 2 of us! I know, it seems excessive, but this is Britain and you need to multiply socially acceptable alcohol consumption by two.

Last night was no exception. During the most rainy day we have seen all year where a months worth of rain dumped on the country in the span of 12 hours, we met up a place in the borough market near my work at none other than - Vinopolis. They have this crazy expensive and touristy wine tour thing (where they make you spit out the wine you taste - oh the horror!), but we decided to share a nice bottle of South African pinotage in the bar area instead. He likes to hear about all my random trips to places in Europe, and I like to hear about his family life, British style - to which he talked about a recent client event where he and his wife went with a number of others up to Glen Eagles golf course in Scotland for the weekend to golf and dance in a celidh. How posh! I guess I'm not one to talk when I explained my Henley experience.

We then had an amazing pizza (european style with knives and forks mind you) with another bottle of wine of course, at a cute italian cafe near the market. At the end of the meal our bill came with mints that made Peter nostalgic and we had a good laugh over the 'old time' jingle of murray mints (no need to hurry mints).

So, another winey night down...we'll probably get together again in September...once we've had time to detox!