London Calling!

No, I’m not in London even though I wouldn’t mind to be in London right now. To experience Olympics first hand is a dream of mine, but maybe the winter Olympics will come back to Lillehammer one day. At least the Winter Youth Olympic Games are arriving to town in 2016, anybody want a spot on the couch?

Instead of enjoying London first-hand I’ve sat at home and finally started to go through a massive amount of photos from the past couple of years, a project I mentioned briefly earlier and a project that just had to be done. In short, I wanted to move all my photos from iPhoto through Lightroom to organised folders on my hard drive and that is now done. Without any of the previous edits or deleting though so there is only about 35,000 photos to go through. Lovely.

While editing, I came across some pictures of our past trips to London and I can only hope the next one will be soon, too. I wouldn’t even mind escaping to London with just my husband (sorry, our little one, lucky you can’t read) and do what we love to do in London: take it easy and enjoy. Stroll in the sun (if at all possible), drink bubbly in the sunshine (I know, lot of sun requested here), people-watch, catch a show or two in the West End, eat well, relax in the hotel and maybe spot a celebrity chef or two.

I know London is full of great, amazing food. But for some reason during our last trip we only ate with the celebrity chefs. First in Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant and then in Gordon Ramsay’s pub restaurant The Narrow. Even though I love pretty much everything Jamie has done in the past and I’m slightly annoyed with almost everything Gordon does, I have to say that of those two The Narrow was more of an “aaaaah” experience then the Italian. Take basic British pub food and turn it up a notch, just enough to make it absolutely mouth-watering gorgeous. I think we even had bit of sunshine that evening to top it up. And beautiful brew on the tap.

So after this bit of reminiscing, the Olympics on the telly and a quick pasta pesto meal at home are no substitute for the real deal in London: enjoying sports by day and Gordon Ramsay’s culinary delights by night. If you are one of the lucky ones in the City, drop by the Narrow and pick up one of their OlymPICNICS, and maybe save some for me too?