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lillibetHere I am in the lobby of our hotel in Bayswater, catching up a little. We had an easy flight, although apparently we spent an hour parked on the runway--Jason and I were asleep before we left the gate, so we didn't notice. We woke up just about an hour before landing and watched the last hour of Bride & Prejudic--can't wait to see the whole thing once it opens in the US. At our hotel we found ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gilana and set off to find food--and found miss_chance along the way. We had a reasonable meal at the Mandarin Kitchen over on Queensway and then came back and hung out for a bit before crashing. We woke up just before our alarm went off at 9am and had breakfast in the hotel before heading out to enjoy a London Walk through the Inns of Court. I'd done it before, but thought Jason and Linda would appreciate it. After the walk--so nice to have weather one can be outside in for a couple of hours--we went up to the Pizza Express near Leicester Square for some lunch. Since I vaguely remembered rumors that the Saatchi Gallery had moved since my guidebook was published, we stopped into Blackwell's to check their stock, and a good thing, too, since it had moved from St. John's Wood (NW8) to County Hall (SE1). We hopped on the tube down there and spent an hour or more checking it out. My favorite piece was Dead Dad by Ron Mueck, but they had a few other interesting works and I was glad to have gotten there. Heading up to Knightsbridge, we wandered through Harrod's for a bit before it was time to go to dinner at the Shanghai Knightsbridge. Barbara & Kirk and various family and friends were there. Jason and I were at table with Warren (of The Weather Channel fame) & Sharon and with Barbara's nephew, Martin, who has just started at Colby and is hoping to spend the summer in China doing a documentary film on tea houses and how they've changed in the last century. Sadly, we had to leave after the soup, but we managed to grab a quick bite down at London Bridge Station after we picked up our tickets for Tropicana. That was a very exciting bit of theatre, taking place in the station's shunt vaults, but I think I'll have to save the details of that for another post.
gilana and set off to find food--and found miss_chance along the way. We had a reasonable meal at the Mandarin Kitchen over on Queensway and then came back and hung out for a bit before crashing. We woke up just before our alarm went off at 9am and had breakfast in the hotel before heading out to enjoy a London Walk through the Inns of Court. I'd done it before, but thought Jason and Linda would appreciate it. After the walk--so nice to have weather one can be outside in for a couple of hours--we went up to the Pizza Express near Leicester Square for some lunch. Since I vaguely remembered rumors that the Saatchi Gallery had moved since my guidebook was published, we stopped into Blackwell's to check their stock, and a good thing, too, since it had moved from St. John's Wood (NW8) to County Hall (SE1). We hopped on the tube down there and spent an hour or more checking it out. My favorite piece was Dead Dad by Ron Mueck, but they had a few other interesting works and I was glad to have gotten there. Heading up to Knightsbridge, we wandered through Harrod's for a bit before it was time to go to dinner at the Shanghai Knightsbridge. Barbara & Kirk and various family and friends were there. Jason and I were at table with Warren (of The Weather Channel fame) & Sharon and with Barbara's nephew, Martin, who has just started at Colby and is hoping to spend the summer in China doing a documentary film on tea houses and how they've changed in the last century. Sadly, we had to leave after the soup, but we managed to grab a quick bite down at London Bridge Station after we picked up our tickets for Tropicana. That was a very exciting bit of theatre, taking place in the station's shunt vaults, but I think I'll have to save the details of that for another post.
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Date: 2004-12-30 07:39 am (UTC)Oh I miss the museums! Give a hug to Barbara for me.