Went to Billy Elliot the musical a couple of nights ago and it was pretty good. The Irish accents were a little difficult to understand at times and some of the humor didn’t make sense, but overall it was quiet a bit of fun. You’re even allowed to eat in the theatre. I had an […]
Went to the Notting Hill Carnivale today and it was nuts. It’s the biggest street party in Europe and I have no reason to doubt it. The people just kept coming and it was packed with people from all over the world. It seemed like every Bobby in the city was there walking in groups […]
Bright and early this morning the group and I headed off for a coach tour of Westminister where all of London’s major landmarks are near. We started off at St. James’ Cathedral and walked over the Millenium Bridge by the Globe Theatre and then got back on the coach. We then passed by Westminister Abbey, […]
I’ve been looking forward to this for over a month. I finally went to the Borough market and it was bigger and more crowded than I expected it to be. All the food was very good it seemed and the only barrier was the price of some items. Regardless there are some decent deals to […]
I was too exhausted from jetlag yesterday and had no internet to write an entry anyway. I could not sleep at all on the flight over so I really went more than 24 hours without sleep with only 6 or so hours the night before. We had a pub reception at The Daily which wasn’t […]
The restaurant Ciudad in downtown Los Angeles is, as my friend Caren put it, a bundle of contradicitons. It has a very art gallery interior design but has picnic table-like chairs and butcher paper on the tables? It’s also dimly lit and playing background jazz music so you would expect it to romantic but it’s […]