The day started off promising enough when we hit the Portobello Markets – it was warm, it was relatively sunny and you could smell that summer was just around the corner. Unfortunately after lunch the weather started to go downhill and by the time we hit Hyde Park later that afternoon at about 5pm it was quite chilly!

I only ever seem to go to Portobello Markets when I’m going with other tourists and in fact today was the first time I’d made it all the way to the end! We had lunch at Thai Rice (I think it was called that) which Mirela’s Aunt insisted on shouting for which was quite nice of her. Thai Rice, and to be fair the surrounding restaurants were fairly buzzing at that time of day (around 2pm) so it was quite a good atmosphere. The food was also pretty nice though nothing outstanding (either in taste or portion size) in the selections we went for. Reasonbly priced however and their Thai Iced Tea was nice.

After lunch we headed back to shoeboxes to drop off the shopping before heading out to Hyde Park meeting up with Petros’ Mum and her friend for a walk through Kensington Gardens and to Albert Hall. It felt like we walked for hours and in face it was about 9pm when we got back!