I am settled in London again - I have a great job and a great flat...and two new two wheeled vehicles! Ah, it's happy days :)
A and I have been making curries and visiting Chinatown and the Chinese grocery stores, and we even found a great South Indian restaurant that does an amazing masala dosa...ah, we have been reliving our memories!!!! All the snack food we ate when riding in Tibet has been found (the rice crispie treat type snacks, A's favorite sunflower seeds, the hawthorne fruit rolls....and even the dried, salted broad beans!). We haven't found that really yummy cake I loved so much in Lhasa, though....oh well.
Here is my new motorbike...his name is Puck and he is such a giggle to ride. Strangely he feels best when I have a big bag strapped to the pillion seat - as if I had my big rucksack strapped to the back of my Pulsar...it's such a comforting feeling :) Really, though he LOVES to corner and flit in and out of traffic leaving all others in his wake - including other motorbikes. It is hilarious :)
My new job is right in the center of town - between Warren Street and Oxford Circus. I ride my bicycle to work pretty much everyday. There is no room in the office, so the bicycle has to live outdoors all day with all the other bikes locked to the rails and poles. That was not making me happy with my lovely XO1 being out there, banged around and having to suffer the weather and the dust (I know it's cross bike, but give it the dirt, not the everyday grime) plus I wanted a fixed gear. I now have a new, all weather steed that I can park out in the weather...I am just building up this wonder bike now. Take one Trek Soho S and put a drop bar on it...viola! Super commuter :)
It's not finished yet, it still needs a bit of sorting...a longer seatpost a few adjustments here and there, bar tape....it already rocks (I rode it home last night) and it can only get better :)
Catch you all later!!!
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