{"id":5830,"date":"2017-05-02T20:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2017-05-02T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:21:41","slug":"food-and-pubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5830","title":{"rendered":"Food and Pubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[today&#8217;s run: 3.5 &#8211; watson road]<\/p>\n<p>We ate well in London.\u00a0 Our most common meal was fish and chips, which was always good.\u00a0 The best fish and chips we had was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk\/restaurants\/london\/themagpiebishopsgatelondon\">in this pub<\/a> where we met some of the wife&#8217;s running compatriots.\u00a0 (You can see my reflection in the window in the yellow hat.)\u00a0 It was packed as you can see, and there were people out in the street around it.\u00a0 But the people we met there had secured tables inside so we were able to sit. (I received a phone call from work so I went outside where I could hear.)<\/p>\n<p>Later that evening we met another guy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk\/restaurants\/london\/thehoopandgrapesaldgatelondon\">yet another pub<\/a>.\u00a0 So&#8230; I have done a two-pub day in London.\u00a0\u00a0 So there.\u00a0 I drank a pint in that pub.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not much of a beer person but I was able to do it.\u00a0 And in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swanlondon.co.uk\/\">another pub<\/a> later in the week I had a glass of white wine\u00a0 (I actually asked for &#8220;sprite&#8221; but he understood it as white so we just rolled with it).<\/p>\n<p>As with our trip to Berlin asking for water usually produced a bottle of water, so no unlimited refills.\u00a0 The tap water was cold but not particularly tasty.<\/p>\n<p>For other food we also had pasta, chicken, pizza, and other normal stuff.\u00a0 I got along with the food just fine.\u00a0 We were introduced to crumpets and Gummy Babies and mild breakfast sausages and other English things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=5831\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5831\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5831\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170421_170119960-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170421_170119960-700x394.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170421_170119960-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170421_170119960-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[today&#8217;s run: 3.5 &#8211; watson road] We ate well in London.\u00a0 Our most common meal was fish and chips, which was always good.\u00a0 The best fish and chips we had was in this pub where we met some of the wife&#8217;s running compatriots.\u00a0 (You can see my reflection in the window in the yellow hat.)\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5834,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}