London/Paris trip 30Dec - Brick Lane, Arsenal

We dropped off our clothes to get pressed (for our dinner at Bibendum) after breakfast. Noreen had seen a story online about leather dealers (jackets, etc.) in an old part of east London on a street called Brick Lane. It's getting gentrified, so it has lots of hipster shops (if you saw the story about the "cereal" restaurant called "Cereal Killer", it's on Brick Lane), so I figured that even if the leather shops were a bust, it'd be a cool walk anyway. So, we took a bus to fairly nearby Brick Ln and then used my phone (I'd downloaded the maps all of the UK & France on my phone ahead of time) to find Brick Ln. Brick Lane is definitely a pre-1900 area of London, dominated by what used to be Truman's Brewing. I found 4 CDs at a record store and Noreen found a nice jacket at a vintage shop for £3! She also found a blue/white striped Russian sailor shirt at another vintage shop. On the way to the tube station (Liverpool St), we found the Spitalfields open air market and I bought a bowler hat and Noreen bought a nice red hat for herself. We then went to Emirates Stadium, where Arsenal plays, despite the best efforts of TfL (the Arsenal stop was closed, so we had to get off a stop early and walk.....) We walked around the outside of the stadium, took some pics and then into the Arsenal store where I bought some stuff. Noreen was starting to poop out (I think this is when she started to notice she was getting sick), so we didn't do the tour. We got a cab back to the hotel and that was our day.