I am about a week late for Valentine’s day – the annual retailer’s dream day. With most people getting flowers, chocs, champagne and dinner in a posh restaurant, perhaps you would like to see what I got……..

Because I got a dozen of Krispy Kreme . With special Valentine’s edition doughnut in the shape of a heard with a strawberry filling. Now, isn’t this better than flowers that costs 5 times more and wilt anyway? All together now….aaaawwww….

We actually started the day off in Daysinn…the cheapest of the cheap hotel. No, did not actually go there on purpose, I was still in Oxford and bacon being the super-husband came all the way from the other end of the country to pick me up – so we thought we’ll stay the night at the cheapest place we could find.

I don’t actually think the rooms are that bad…clean, spacious, complimentary toilteries and coffee/tea making facilities. Comes with free newspapers – which DeVere hotel charged me 50p for. To be honest, I would rather stay in the Daysinn rather than the posh DeVere.

We walked along Cowley road – Oxford’s famous restaurant mile, but ended up getting the abovementioned Krispy Kreme for breakfast…as I couldn’t actually find cafe that serves breakfast..sigh. After breakfast (well, brunch) we drove into Oxford city centre to have a wander around…Oxford’s a real lovely city. Ended up at the Covered Market, a lovely market housing anything from traditional butchers, hatmakers, juice bars and natural toileteries stalls.

We came across MooMoos…a juice/milkshake bar. Just look at the variety!!

Bacon bought me a mars milkshake,very similar with those from Perhentian’s!!! AWWWW! Although he did slurp it up like a pint of beer and I only really had a taste of it….hmpf. Love the hanging pineapples behind him by the way

Pie Minster serves a variety of pie with traditional gravy, mushy peas and mash. Bacon had the traditional steak and kidney ale pie. Yummilicious! There are other varieties from chorizo to thai chicken curry. The crust was crisp and non-oily, whilst the gravy is really groovy! For about £6.25 you get the minty peas, mash, gravy and a choice of pies.

All too soon it was way for us to leave Oxford having exhausted our 2 hour parking. We never seem to stay very long at Oxford due to the prohibitive parking charges. This was the first time I was actually there in the daytime, and would definately return in the near future to spend another day here…this time we will do the park-n-ride rather than trying to find parking in Oxford city centre.

To cap the day off (Leeds is about 3.5hrs away from Oxford), we left Oxford around 1.30pm for Birmingham. Bacon made a detour to Malaysian Delight at Birmingham to bring me to my favourite Assam Laksa. Checked the picture I took when I was last there – mint leaves are missing this time! Not fair! I got a tapau (takeaway) of prawn noodle for Sunday’s breakfast. No pictures there – I devoured it at 10am bleary eyed! YUMM! I can’t really compare Village Cafe’s harmeen with Malaysian Delight, but I would go either restaurant for harmeen. Not sure when will I be able to make it there again….but hopefully it is sometime soon….:)

All in all, an excellent day. Now, the diet starts…..burp.

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