Week 4: 27 April-3 May 2015
Our first week in our new flat, and it finally felt like we actually live in London. We are fortunate enough to be placed within footsteps to countless eateries and bars, as well as several major supermarkets (up to now, corner stores were all we'd seen). Also at the end of our tree lined street is the 220 acre Clapham Common, a huge expanse of open parkland that's hard to believe is still in the city.
At work, Brendan discovered that clients of the Knightsbridge agency are not simply anonymous, wealthy business people but that they are in fact dealing with multiple well known public figures - just this week he was sorting out a certain ex Australian PM's mail! Just prior to Brendan starting at Knight Frank, the company had teamed up with Condé Nast, publishers of magazines including Vogue and GQ, for a large scale marketing campaign. To celebrate the success of this partnership, Knight Frank staff were invited to a party at Vogue House in Mayfair which Brendan attended.
The morning of the royal birth, we headed across to St Mary's Hospital where there was plenty of media attention. Spotting Australia's Seven News crew, we wandered over and discovered we had a pretty clear view of the entrance to the hospital.
Considering the police all around, we were surprised that we were allowed to remain standing in this particular spot. After a while, some girls in blue marketing shirts came around and offered us champagne and they told us the hashtags we should use on twitter, and Roslyn mentioned to them the royal hashtags that were trending. We thought nothing of this until some other members of the public nearby asked for champagne and were told that it was for media only, before being ushered out of the area. It seemed that with our foreign accents, we'd successfully been mistaken for media crew. #winning!
As it was a long weekend (or "bank holiday" as it's called), we felt the weekend was a good opportunity to complete some of the touristy things around London that we'd so far missed out on, and so jumped on board an open top, red double decker tour bus. The ticket for the bus also included a river cruise, which we used the next day. That evening, we ascended The Shard, western Europe's tallest building at 95 stories, to the Hutong sky bar where we had a sensational outlook across the city.
Highlights for the week:
- Walked around Clapham Common
- Went to a function at Vogue House
- Booked a cruise to Croatia
- Booked a trip to Edinburgh
- Brendan discovered that clients at work are in fact well known public figures
- St Mary's Hospital after royal birth
- Portobello Road markets
- Night out in the hipster, Shoreditch (home of the Cereal Killer Cafe)
- Open top bus tour
- River cruise along River Thames
- Went up The Shard
- Long weekend
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