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Americans "experience" Europe by going to Scotland for golf, Paris for clothes shopping and Florence for, well, something or other. 

It seems they go to Hampstead too. 

For crepes. 

The queue up Perrin's Lane, just off Hampstead High Street, for La Creperie de Hampstead,  was full of them.

My queue'ing experience wasn't great.

First, I queued at the wrong end. 

Where people wait for their crepes after ordering. 

So that cost me about 6 mins. I was left there rather unkindly I thought, until I asked a couple (americans) if they were queuing. 

"No, we've already ordered" they twanged. 

F&%k. The real queue had grown by at least 3 Americans since I'd been standing there too.

Then a rubbish (garbage) truck squeezed past us all - an impossible squeeze - Perrin's Lane is basically a dustbin width wide.

Then Derek Chisora drove past in his gold Range Rover and opened his window and said hello to the lady making the Crepes. 

This was all very exciting, but I was hungry.

I went for Ham and Cheese. 

"The Classic."

A magnificent crepe it was. Crispy soft crepe material, with tonnes of oozing cheese, slightly salty but not too much, tasty ham and butter dripping everywhere. 

The queue was forgotten and forgiven. 

Now I understand why the Americans all come to Hampstead.

3.35*/5

Ham and Cheese Crepe - £8

Single person surcharge? No