I enjoy getting out of London, so today was a day that I got to visit Bournemouth to see friends and to attend a christening. I actually used to live in Bournemouth for a short while as I went to university there to do a Master's degree and visited the town a lot with friends before my days of university. The city has changed a lot over that time, and I do miss the old times when I used to hang out in Bournemouth as the feeling of the town has changed a lot. Anyway, the main reason of the visit was the christening, which took place in the morning, and then we went to get some photographs before heading to the centre to Neo's Restaurant for lunch.
We had pineapple mocktails (pina coladas) and Berry Collins mocktails, which were all delicious. The pineapple pina coladas were served in cool pineapple glasses.
The restaurant is located close to the seafront and opposite the hotels and BIC (Bournemouth's concert hall). We had a wonderful view over the gardens and the sea. I had so many good memories walking around the gardens. And Bournemouth was the first beach that I ever visited! I'd never been to a beach before and had never seen the sea/ocean from ground level (not including the view from a plane).
We choose to have a starter and a main meal, and I had the tomato soup. There was also a choice of apple and celery soup. This was served with potato bread. We also had fresh white pull-apart bread roll as a pre-starter. This was served with butter and chilli salt.
I had the chicken for the main course, and this came with broccoli and ham hock and potato rosti. The rosti was very salty and could have had more potato and far less ham hock as the salt and flavour clashed too much. That was my only complaint, but the rest of the food was really good.
After we finished, we headed back to the house to have some of the special cake for the christening. It was a great day to meet the little one, and we also met another little one as I had not seen a couple of friends (previously featured on my blog) that have since had a baby, though the baby will be three years old this year!
It was a great day to catch up with friends and again reminded me that I really need a break from London every now and again. I was born in the country, and London is too large and I miss spying the countryside from the car on the journey and the smaller town/city of Bournemouth.
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