Satan's Office in in the Basement
It has been one heck of a day. My feet and lower back are exhausted, and I have abot 20 minutes left in the internet cafe before it closes, so here goes:
We walked up and down and around the many streets of Soho and Covent Garden before and after our meetings today - I saw the Savoy, where Gilbert & Sullivan did their shows (wearing a Houston G&S tshirt, of course: The Mikado). We went into the Covent Garden and the Theatre Museum.
At the latter, Dan and I took our main character's advice from Like YOu Like It. You should have seen us Be a Little Wild.
There was an awards reception going on in one of the rooms in the Theatre Museum, so we debated if we should just go in there as if we belong and as if we had been at the ceremony. Dan then had a brilliant idea: Leave one of our LYLI packets there, which he did on someone's coat. Meanwhile, I "mingled" and took some of the hors d'ouevres, mainly because I wanted to tell about it in the blog.
Which comes first - the experience or the blog?
After leaving the museum (with fears of being tailgated by the security guard) we headed to a Turkish restaurant (I found it in a handy dandy guide).
GREAT FOOD.
MOULIN ROUGE DECOR.
PORNOGRAPHIC BATHROOM.
The painted murals on the bathroom were racy = positions that would make the Kama Sutra look tame. And some of the art on the walls near our table were, well, a bit creepy - there was a papier mache devil with a phallus. Yes, a phallus.
They didn't mention that in the guide!
I have renamed the Turkish place "Rosemary's Kitchen."
Dan saw a sight to behold on the street: a homeless guy under a blanket who was checking voice mail on his cellphone.
Oh - random: I told you my Dad's name in Welsh means exit. Dan means fire.
Our meetings went well - one of the people we met got us house seats to Billy Elliot. In the other meeting, I read Hebrew off the Israeli poster of Guys & Dolls and Sound of Music.
Well, they are blinking the lights in here - so I have to sign off.
Preview:
Jack the Ripper tour
The Tube
posted by Sammy Buck @ 2:42 PM
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2 Comments:
Too busy watching/hearing election results to write much - but do faithfully check your blog, and thoroughly enjoy the daily news - food, meetings, places to go, things to do, etc. Now, with whom are you meeting, and about what? Is it a possible production? Meanwhile, savor your touristy places, take lots of pics, and knoiw that we're there with you
in spirit. Back to the elections.
Love you,
Madeline and Michael
At (one of) the Starbucks near my office, there's a homeless dude with a laptop. I asked him if he gets wireless Internet access, and he said, "Yes," in a disdainful way that meant "obviously, you idiot."
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