Rik Abel

Lunchtime travelogue...

People often ask me - "Rik, what do you get up to at lunchtime, working right near Tower Bridge as you do?" So I thought I'd put together a little lunchtime travelogue for you all. This blog is so like interactive.

First I put my skates on, then I went to see what is in the Design Museum Tank at the moment. Turns out it was a bunch of weird chairs...

So, I made a mistake in my compelling narrative. They aren't chairs by "Clay Maarten-Baas", rather, they are clay chairs by Maarten Baas. Wildly expensive clay chairs.

After getting my obligatory design-fix, I decided to skate over Tower Bridge...

Which was all very exciting. After skating along the north side of the river for a while (sorry, I couldn't be arsed to film the Tower of London) I crossed back to the south side of the river via London Bridge and grabbed a coffee and a flapjack at Borough Market...

Monmouth Coffee Company does probably the best coffee in London. Look, you can almost smell the beans...

Having sat down and enjoyed my coffee I skated around a bit more, and then finally settled down for  lunch, which today was a lovely, fattening hot salt beef sandwich. Banjeroo and I are going on a cleansing diet starting this weekend, so I thought I should indulge. Plus it was cold and grey and miserable and it  cheered me up...

So that was my lunchtime. Food, exercise AND a travelogue/blog post. How is that for multitasking?

Borough Market skatethrough

 

Here is a short video I took while skating through Borough Market, the most upscale and posh foodmarket in London, which takes place every Friday just a little way from where I work. Yum! Borough Market is here.

This is also by way of  a test-post of VideoEgg, which is a rather spiffy video-sharing service (yes, another one...) VideoEgg is neat for a number of reasons: the encoding of .3gp format movies (which is what I generally have given I take most clips on my phone) seems better than Y**Tube, you can edit and trim videos on the site before uploading (you need to download a small widget first), it enables you to post directly to TypePad, Blogger, eBay (no more copying and pasting code...) and the videoegg site is nice and clean, and features rounded corners, which as we all know, is a good thing. If they can add tagging and a few other things, I'll be superhappy.

Also also, this is a test-post for a new idea I have for "niche" or even "uberniche" blogging - rollermobilegeovideoblogging or "romogeovlogging" - which is me skating around filming stuff on my phone and talking shit, essentially. I think it could be a winner and will start up a dedicated blog any day now. Meanwhile, I implore you, dear readers, to suggest places in London (or Cambridge) that you would like me to romogeovlog! Go on, comment, please. It makes me happy...