013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (9/10)

Savoury food on sweet waffles? Surely not! Well, it's true and I tried it. There's a very little place in Norwich called 'The Waffle House' that serve a variety of main courses on top of waffles. IA group of friends from work and I visited on evening, the only option of mains that was a safe option for my unadventurous tastes was the bolognese. So strange to eat bolognese on a waffle, but I went with it.

It was all about the desserts to be honest. We all went for small waffles for the mains and were larging it up for dessert. I had the yummiest butterscotch sauce on mine and it was amazing! I will definitely be going back, if only for the sweet dessert!

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (8/10)

We originally went into Norwich city centre to go and watch the new Spider-man movie, we needed dinner beforehand so tried an old favourite - The Library. It was the evening for lots of Graduation celebrations so there weren't any tables available, instead we decided to go for a new place that we'd always wanted to try.

'Captain America's' in Norwich is a small place hidden away up some stairs and on the first floor, so it's not somewhere you can see into and see how busy/not busy it might be. This had always put me off, but we went for it anyway and waited 10 minutes in the bar for a table.

We both ordered burgers, the standard speciality for the restaurant and seeing as we'd stumbled across a special 40th anniversary evening and were getting 40% off our food bill, I ordered extra onion rings, James ordered a side salad and we went all out with Sundaes for desert.

It was a good choice, and so, so busy! We didn't know about the special 40% off discount, but it made for a pleasent surprise anyway. We finished off our superhero themed evening as we'd planned, by seeing the new Spider-man movie starring Andrew Garfield.

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (7/10)

James and I were in London for a few days last week, and after picking up Shrek the Musical tickets from TKTS in Leicester Square we wanted to have something for (a late) lunch. Determined never to go to Garfunkel's again and we didn't want to rely on the faithful TGI Fridays for a trusted option, we wandered down a different street and found Steak & Co Steak House.

It was about 3pm, so not very busy at all. But James had an amazing steak served on a sizzling block - it actually finishes cooking to just how you like it before your very eyes! I wasn't so brave and just had fish and chips (yes, in a steak restaurant!).

Would definitely like to experience it when it was busier and in the evening. Also had the weirdest thing happen, sitting right next to the window in the busy Leicester Square region of London, some random guy walked up to the window and kissed it, kind of at me at the same time. Very odd!

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (6/10)

James and I had booked off a couple of days from work, firstly we were going to go to London, but we've put off that trip until the end of March instead. So, we just had a long, lazy weekend at home. James had been a bit ill, so it was nice to just be at home.

We did treat ourselves to a carvery on Thursday night and a Chinese at the Baby Buddha on Friday night. We'd wanted to go to this Chinese restaurant for a while, but it's always so busy that you must phone up and book. 

I'm glad we finally went, it's a cute little restaurant and the food was amazing!

101. Do something special on 11/11/11

We'd had three Fridays off work in a row for Jessie J in Liverpool and for Britney Spears and Tinie Tempah in London, so when Friday November 11 came around and I wanted to do something special we really didn't know what to do that could top off the past few weeks.

What could we possibly do that was special on a day when we were at work and would just come home and chill out like normal?

We decided to get a bit dressed up, put my face on and go out for dinner. This appears to be what normal people do on Friday nights, but for us it was special. We made a late dinner reservation at The Library in Norwich city centre. We'd been before during the summer, for my birthday and really enjoyed it. 

It might not have been as special as I had in mind when I made the list, but it was a nice way to round off a month of live events and travelling to some great cities. 

A Day In The Life - October 22 2011

This 'A Day In The Life' was inspired by a project at sh1ft.org - we were asked to record our October 22 2011, in 24 photos or less.

We had travelled up to Liverpool on Friday October 21 for a long weekend away. We had tickets to see Jessie J on Saturday October 22, this is my day.

Taking advantage of not having to be up early for work or an absurd international Formula One race, we laid in until after 8am (probably not most people's idea of a lie-in, but for us it was good). Breakfast in our hotel room courtesy of our mini kitchen, complete with fridge. By 10:30am we were ready to go.



Our plan was to head straight down to the Albert Dock and spend time walking around that area.



We did one lap of the Albert Dock and started the indoor exploration with the TATE Liverpool gallery. Now, I'm not a gallery type of person, I really only like the gift shops!



Dressed for winter, the TATE was incredibly warm! I was bored and there wasn't much to see so we moved onto the next, which was the Merseyside Maritime Museum. In there was the International Slavery Museum, which was the most interesting part. I also enjoyed the Titantic exhibitions, I cannot believe it is almost 100 years since the disaster.



By 1pm we were ready for some food and drink. After walking past a few of closed the restaurants earlier, they were now open for lunch, so we wandered back around the dock to find somewhere suitable. We ended up at the Miller & Carter Steakhouse knowing that they will definitely cater for my picky eating. I chose to have a grilled chicken breast burger and James ordered a beefburger, both plain with no sauce, no cheese and no mayo. When our food finally arrived my chicken was covered in bacon and barbecue sauce! James and I swapped plates, so I ended up with his beefburger and he enjoyed the free sauce and bacon that should've been paid extras. The service staff were also terrible! We felt ignored and sat with dirty plates on our table a long time after we'd finished eating. We tried everything, making eye contact with the waitresses just got us a blank response or a 'how are you' before wandering away. James had to literally flag down a waitress to take away the plates and bring us the bill so we could leave. Terrible! And it wasn't even busy.



After lunch we went to take a look at the Liverpool Wheel. It was very windy and the cabs seemed to sway a little bit too much for me. It's so small compared to the London Eye, it just scared me. So we just looked and left.



We'd walked past a confectionery shop round the Albert Dock and near that was the Funky Shake Bar - they made milkshakes out of chocolate bars! James chose a simple Rolo milkshake, I went for a special for just £1 extra! It was called 'Bubbles' - it contained Daim bar, Galaxy chocolate and was topped with Maltesers. Amazing!



By 3pm we were back at the hotel for sit down and rest before heading back out to the Jessie J gig. I enjoyed some iPad Twitter time and a read of my magazine.



All I wanted to do was stay in a have a nap, but it was time to put my face on ready to go out.



Not bad!



Converse on, the only type of footwear suitable to gigs at Universities! 5:45pm, we're out.



On the walk to the University we stopped off for food in Subway. Mine was a 6 inch chicken on hearty Italian bread, toasted, with lettuce and red onion. Yum.



We queued outside the venue for 45 minutes. So glad I took my hat, scarf and gloves - it was very chilly. Some girls who were queuing near us were just wearing dresses, no coat, cardigan or tights! WHAT!



We changed our chosen position for Jessie J a couple of times once we were inside. I always knew I was going to have a hard time seeing her when she got on stage, I don't generally do standing tickets for gigs but that was all that was available. She looked and sounded great, love the purple hair! And there was confetti at the end, shaped like hearts!



We got back to the hotel at 11pm, after a quick stop in Tesco for some chocolate and Mountain Dew. Aching feet from the walking, standing and dancing - glad to get those shoes off and relax.



Checked Twitter before bed. Jessie J loved her loud Liverpool crowd - yeah, that was me!

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (4/10)

James and I had tickets to see Lee Evans at the O2 in London on September 30, before the show started we wanted to get dinner in one of the restaurants at the arena. The doors were due to open at 6:30pm, and we didn't arrive at the arena until after 5 so we thought that we'd end up queuing for a decent place to eat. Tucked round the corner behind a horrible display (probably left over from the Millennium Dome days) was a restaurant called Armadillo. The food was mostly American/Mexican, so a steak and fries suited me fine. Being quite out of the way it wasn't busy at all. At first my steak came out way under cooked, we sent it back to the kitchen. I got a new steak cooked just how I like it and even got a free bottle of Dr Pepper (this saved us buying a drink in the arena). It was nice, expensive, but nice. We'd already had fries for lunch at a Little Frankie's by Trafalgar Square, so I didn't get to try desserts!

By the time we were finishing our dinner queues had started to form outside Pizza Express just opposite. I can't imagine queuing for a restaurant table.....

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (3/10)

On Saturday September 3 I went out to dinner with some friends from work to celebrate a birthday of theirs. We went to an Italian restaurant called Prezzo. I'm not an Italian food fan, when it comes to pasta and pizza I just don't eat it! Too much cheese, too much garlic - not for me. Thank goodness there was something on the menu I could have, that turned out to be a burger! The burger was supposed to come with cheese and mayo, I had neither - no cheese, no mayo. It was really great, not the best burger I've ever had, but still great. We also shared a few bread boards as starters, I just went for the plain, un-herbed variety! And, for dessert the majority of us went for the chocolate and honeycomb cheesecake - amazing!

I don't think I'll go back with just James, neither of us eat Italian - although James might be more adventurous than me. I think we'd go somewhere else for burgers. But, it depends I suppose, I might fancy a slice of that amazing cheesecake again!

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (2/10)

For my birthday we booked a table at a restaurant in Norwich that we'd been meaning to try for such a long time. We went to The Library located on Guildhall Hill.

The decor inside is amazing, it was once a library and lots of the old fittings still remain. You can even get a discount on your meal if you 'bring a book' - amazing!

I ordered the steak and James had a mixed grill. For dessert I went with the chocolate brownie and chocolate ice cream, James tried a baked Alaska. All was enjoyed, we will be going back.

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (1/10)

James and I were in London on Sunday evening, so headed down to one of our favourite places, Covent Garden, for dinner. We usually eat somewhere in Leicester Square, but decided to go for a change and tried out the Covent Garden Grill. We chose to go here partly because we had a voucher printed from Quidco for a deal on two burgers for £15.

The burgers were great, but I was saving room for desert - that was chocolate cake and ice cream, of course. It was nice to go somewhere different for a meal even though we ate something pretty standard with burger and fries. I'm well known for not being very adventurous with my food, let's see where we end up having a meal next!