I‘m spending two hours a day in the Apple lecture theatre accessing the fast broadband network as we are still wind-up internet at home.
It’s a stones throw from my old work stamping ground of Soho, the tiny streets bordered by Regent and Wardour Streets.
My big food find is Fernandez and Wells on Beak St with whole jamons (hams) hanging in the window. But Beak St is too close to Carnaby St for my liking and I stroll around to Lexington St where there is a second smaller store opposite my old favourite Andrew Edmonds.
Andrew Edmonds with its tiny tables, mismatching chairs and dark interior was always a spot for furtive job interviews and romantic trysts. How different Fernandez and Wells is with the bright line shining across the five whole legs of jamon hanging in the window.
The hams here are carved off the bone something we can’t do in Australia because it is illegal to import the bones incase of the import of porcine disease (something the UK has survived).
I sip a Seria da Estrella 2007 Albarino which costs five quid and order a 21 quid ($50) plate of jamon with manchego. To be precise he carves me thick slices of 36 month old Jamon Iberico de Bellota by Erostine Liidelee Fundacion Monte Mediterrano dehesa San Francisco , Huelva (I’ve no idea what all that means).
The jamon is thick with stripes of the porcine fat and I even have a chunk on my plate which I suck down.
The can’t be many better ways to spend an afternoon, assuming you have the cash.
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