More dictation, bit more garbled, and it's the following day as I try to fix it up. What on earth was I saying?
We've been trying to find something for dinner. We didn't know exactly where to go. We were first looking for places around Bank, around Puttshack, but we gave those up and thought "Greenwich is so nice, Let's look for something in Greenwich now". The others were keen on something Italian again, but I thought as last night we had pizza, and we always have pizza, I didn't want to do that necessarily. And, I didn't want to go into a chain, take the opportunity to have a night out in London and not go to one of the usual places that we could go to around here. I think we talked the boys into that too, so I thought - surprisingly - a pub would do the job. Not just for beer but so we'd more likely find a range of different things that we'd all like. Pizza if they insist, but maybe something else. I searched for gastropubs, see what comes up, and one came up in Greenwich, the Prince of Greenwich and it looks good. I couldn't book it online, and I had to leave them a message and then they didn't get back to me. But we thought we'll try it anyway, so we will walk there. And it turns out to be an Italian gastropub. It's very nice. Very friendly, family run. Really interesting looking pub. Interesting interior. I wouldn't want a dust it. They call it a museum pub, it was a really lovely place. It was really busy. Every seat is full, but luckily there was a space for four, so we sat down and the food was really good at the beer was good. Then we had some wine, some unusual Italian wine. I would say the beer was better than mine. Was delicious. I had bruschetta to start, and we had some garlic bread. Then I had risotto because they could do a a vegan mushroom and truffle risotto, and it was really truffly. The others had pasta type things but it was all you know, just different to what we would have got somewhere else. But really nice. The owner / landlord came over to do some magic tricks at our table too, because we had cards with us and we were playing card games at the table between courses. He did a very clever predicting the next card trick but I still haven't figured out.
So that was all very nice, and very close to our hotel too, where we staying. So again while the others walked back I stopped in another pub in between there and the hotel, and that was also good. Wasn't expecting it to be but a you know really quite big pub. A really big garden, and doing lots of food. I sat in the front bar which was the quiet bit, had one pint, and then headed back the hotel. I was tired, it was a tiring day. So again I was back before anyone was asleep, but I had no problem dozing off...
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