vacation, all i ever wanted
Oct. 20th, 2004 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_clareLondon was excellent. We got the bad part out of the way early -- wandering around a 1-block radius at Victoria Station for 90 minutes, trying to find kmmatero and kakloss -- and it was all up-hill from there. Spent lots of time wandering around the West End, over both days. Saturday night's activity was the musical Blood Brothers -- one of those that sounds good in theory, but sounds super-cheesy on-stage. So cheesy, y'all: synthesizer, gratuitous saxophone, and the most heavy-handed symbolism and acting style that I've ever seen on a professiona stage. (Seriously.) Still, it managed to be entertaining. Plus we had rush tickets, so our good, orchestra-level seats were fairly cheap.
Afterwards, we were distressed to find a lack of available pubs (in the theatre district, no less!). Although we knew that pubs in our respective towns generally close at 11 pm, we foolishly hoped that London pubs might be open later. Alas, no luck; we ended up getting fruit juice and HobNobs (yay, McVitie's!) from a convenience store and going back to the hotel.
Sunday was a lovely day for wandering around, some more. We started off on the south bank, passing the London Eye and the National Theatres complex (including the National Film Theatre and the Royal National Theatre). We spent about 2 hours in the Tate Modern (enough to do just one floor, or two galleries) before hunger set in. I'm definitely going back to the Tate Modern (and should probably check out the other Tate, too), possibly when Mom comes to visit in November.
After the Tate, we grabbed a leisurely lunch at Pizza Express (classier than it sounds, I promise), and rushed past Shakespeare's Globe, some cathedral, and the London Dungeon in order to make our way across town to Latchmere, where one of Kristy's UMass friends is interning at a wee theatre company. The play of the evening was Fishbowl, an Argentinian play that tells the story of two prep school boys and their fucked-up relationship. It was a really intense show (very much an actor's show; three elderly audience members walked out 3/4 of the way through), and we spent the rest of the evening breaking things down over dinner and drinks.
Afterwards, we were distressed to find a lack of available pubs (in the theatre district, no less!). Although we knew that pubs in our respective towns generally close at 11 pm, we foolishly hoped that London pubs might be open later. Alas, no luck; we ended up getting fruit juice and HobNobs (yay, McVitie's!) from a convenience store and going back to the hotel.
Sunday was a lovely day for wandering around, some more. We started off on the south bank, passing the London Eye and the National Theatres complex (including the National Film Theatre and the Royal National Theatre). We spent about 2 hours in the Tate Modern (enough to do just one floor, or two galleries) before hunger set in. I'm definitely going back to the Tate Modern (and should probably check out the other Tate, too), possibly when Mom comes to visit in November.
After the Tate, we grabbed a leisurely lunch at Pizza Express (classier than it sounds, I promise), and rushed past Shakespeare's Globe, some cathedral, and the London Dungeon in order to make our way across town to Latchmere, where one of Kristy's UMass friends is interning at a wee theatre company. The play of the evening was Fishbowl, an Argentinian play that tells the story of two prep school boys and their fucked-up relationship. It was a really intense show (very much an actor's show; three elderly audience members walked out 3/4 of the way through), and we spent the rest of the evening breaking things down over dinner and drinks.
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Date: 2004-10-20 07:04 pm (UTC)