Friday evening and a trip to a wine tasting venue just south of the river in central London. Quite a gang of us, to try a variety of grapes from fizzy Champagne through Pinot Noir into Burgundy and a momentary flit to Chile for some robust red. Then finishing the tasting with what I call 'pudding wine' - Sauternes. At the end of the tour we were given further vouchers to try the Bombay Sapphire gin, but in the cocktail - in my case a Cosmopolitan.
At this stage we getting limbered up for the evening and so as we left the venue, we decided perhaps to find somewhere to eat nearby, but somehow got waylaid at a well known pub, which became the setting for the next stage of the evening. We bulk purchased a random selection of beers and wines (o, and some water) and joined the large throng of people spilling out of the pub into the adjacent street. We'd chosen a pub that, improbably, had a gourmet sausage shop next door, and s at random intervals supplies arrived as a form of sustenance. I think around eighteen of us made it as far as the pub, but then as things moved towards the West End and even more raucous moments, incrementally more people dropped out. Survival for me was important because of my eight am meeting on Saturday, so I eventually quit too, and made my way to a bed with a view across the City of London.
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