Sam Duong (guest author of yesterday’s post: What is the word for business in Chinese? ) is a dear friend and someone who absolutely creates adventures to make the very most out of life.
Whilst it is not so easy for me to get out of bed in the dark, wet and cold and head out on the bike, I LOVE the weekly adventures Sam and I are doing during the one month second lockdown in England.
Proactive Resilience is a recurring theme I am writing about in this pandemic winter. Be proactive, give yourself what you need to charge your batteries. As cyclists put it: “drink before you are thirsty“
So today a brief story about Sam and I and our adventure yesterday, Saturday morning.
Last week I wrote about our visit to Brick Lane in the East End for salt beef beigels. This week we didn’t really have anywhere in mind to eat, but, as the saying goes, not all those who wander are lost.
As we meandered around to the north of the City of London, we found ourselves in Stoke Newington. Yes, it is a bit gentrified now, so plenty of posh cafés, generic in their own way, so no “adventure”, but as we cycled I recalled that it is a bit of a Turkish enclave in London. I then spotted amagic word in a café window: Gözleme!
These delicious fast food treats are traditional stuffed flatbreads made fresh in front of you. You can watch the dough being rolled, then stuffed (we chose the cold weather treat of sucuk (beef sausage) with cheese), then cooked on a gözleme pan, a large upturned oval.
Having left home at 07:30, I got home around 11am, 50km of cycling through the quiet city and a very full stomach from a huge gözleme 🙂
Here is how they are made: