I was starving when I finally exited the Tube and arrived at Parisa’s (the plane food was worse than usual, so I elected to just drink an enormous plastic cup of complimentary wine – yay international flights! – and pass out), so we made salami and turkey sandwiches, paired with a few cheeses and some mixed olives from Waitrose (I highly recommend that you get your hands on some green olives stuffed with tiny pieces of lemon rind as soon as possible). My favorite was comte cheese (also Tim’s favorite) – a hard, unpasteurized French cow’s milk cheese.

After I took a quick nap, Parisa made me a latte with her brand-new Nescafe espresso machine. I’m not a big coffee person, but this latte made me wish Kendrick and I had registered for one of these things when we got married.