Limehouse

It was raining heavily when we arrived, so we went for brunch in the Yurt Cafe which was the cosiest place to hide away.

I tucked into warm banana bread topped with crushed hazelnuts, espresso butter and red berry yoghurt.

Tom had a huge cinnamon bun and really tasty pot of lavender tea which I helped myself to several sips of.

There was a mural outside the yurt made from bottle caps.

The rain had stopped by the time we finished breakfast, so we headed for a walk around Limehouse Basin.

The Thames was at really high tide and some of the riverfront gardens and paths had flooded.

There's a giant seagull sculpture in Ropemakers' Fields which is pretty terrifying.

I loved how all the street signs in the area were named after the products made on the streets.

It started to rain again, so we hid away with a drink in The Grapes, a 500 year old pub, once frequented by Charles Dickens.

There was a pyramid tomb in St Anne's Churchyard.

Tom wanted to stop off for a drink at The Palm Tree, a pub which looked comepletely closed from the outside.

To my surprise it was open and the pub looked amazing inside, like we'd stepped back in time to an era when The Krays might burst through the door and shoot someone.

The pub is cash only with an amazing old fashioned till, so we had to empty our pockets in search of enough change for a round.

A little further up the canal, we went for dinner at the East London Liquor Company.

As well as a distillery, they have a restaurant serving cocktails and food made using their liquors.

As a nice way to try their different spirits you can order flights with three cocktails made with different liquors.

Tom ordered a martini flight ELLC London Dry Gin, ELLC Gin Batch №1 and ELLC Gin Batch №2 martinis.

I ordered the Old Fashioned flight which had mini Old Fashioned cocktails made with ELLC London Dry Gin, ELLC Demerara Rum and Sonoma Bourbon Whiskey.

To eat, we started with the homemade bread selection with focaccia, ciabatta, grissini, and flatbread.

To go with the bread, we ordered the cheese selection.

And finally we ordered the garlic oil poached prawns with zucchini and tomato. They were tasted but we only got four prawns in the whole dish.