The White Hart, Whitechapel, London

We were in the city to attend the taping of a couple of episodes of Bleak Expectations, this comedy that takes the piss out of every Dickensian cliché it can.  We were heading to the Tower of London to do the standard sort of tourist thing but we were pretty hungry and decided to walk about and try to find a restaurant first.  As we strayed further afield, we eventually gave up on finding anything good and settled on the next pub that presented itself (The White Hart), but it turned out to have a fantastic Thai menu so everything worked out.

We really enjoyed the meal and the window seat was great for people watching in this part of the east end, but it was probably too late to do any properly touristy stuff.  That’s when I spotted the sign above the bar stating that George Chapman, a prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigations, lived and worked in the building.  Cool, and just to the side of the door was one of the few remaining alleyways spared destruction in the bombings during the Blitz.  Following on from these, we eventually found our way past the Bunhill Fields, a cemetery near the Honorable Artillery Company barracks, final resting place of Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan, and William Blake.

Oh, yeah, the pub was nice, I highly recommend it if you are hanging out in the east end.