Competition winner
Remember our Valentine’s competition? We asked you for your most romantic story about love in London to be in with a chance to win dinner for two at the 202.
Mena has been given her voucher for tapas for two at the 202 Bar
The First Pint loved all your romantic stories but we all agreed that the best was Mena Furtado’s story about finding love in London. Mena (and we can only assume her boyfriend) will enjoy a complimentary meal for two at an atmospheric tapas restaurant. Here is Mena’s story for those of you who missed it:
“When I was a teenager I lived in Lisbon and I used to go past the local butcher’s shop every weekend on my way to the local market. The shop had a larger glass window and this boy used to stand by the window waving and making funny faces at passers-by.
Some years ago I moved to London and one day my brother said he was going to bring one of his friends over for dinner. My brother’s friend looked very familiar but I couldn’t quite place him. As we were talking it suddenly came to me and I asked him if he ever had a summer job at butchers in Lisbon. He looked very surprised and started smiling. He said he did but some time ago. He then and asked me how did I know. When I told him that he I remember him standing there waving at people he laughed and then denied it saying that he doesn’t remember doing that.
I could see he was just a bit embarrassed as he kept denying and asking things like ‘but which shop was it’ and saying, it could have been his brother. We got to know each other better and in the end he kind of admitted that he might have been him but he did not ‘remember it’.
As we got to know each other better and starting going out, taking long walks in London’s green park and visiting museums, we fell in love. Once he said to me, “So many things happen in life – you go in to a completely new country to find someone that had been so close to you all along.”
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