24 posts tagged “south bank”
Went shopping for holiday stuff yesterday and took some pics along the way.
Carnaby Street has gone retro with its Christmas decorations this year. Not really doing it for me personally.
How many times a month do you eat out in a restaurant? Do you wish you dined out more or less?
This is probably going to sound extravagant but in London it is so easy to eat out relatively cheaply and there is soo much choice. So I tend to eat out once or twice a week regularly but it can be more depending on what I'm up to.
For example last week I was taken out to lunch by a PR to a Chinese restaurant on Baker Street, went to my favourite Phillippine restaurant on Charlotte Street with Mosh on Friday and had a curry with friends in Olney, Bucks on Saturday night (OK that last one wasn't in London).
Tomorrow night I'll have a pre-theatre bite to eat probably somewhere on the South Bank and on Friday am going out for a surprise birthday dinner (about which I can say no more for fear of accidentally spoiling the surprise).
Did I ever mention I love London.
After a day cooped up on a training course (more online stuff with www.adam.vox.com doing an expert job once again) I've escaped to my favourite place for a stroll: South Bank.
It's warm and bright and I have an evening of theatre at the National ahead of me. The play is Black Album and is based on the Hanif Kureishi novel by the same name (hope I spelt his name correctly not on internet to check).
But first a bite to eat in the sun with Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince* - as is always the way with the books it has hooked its claws into me from the outset and I'm sure I'll devour it in a matter of days.
* want to see if my criticism of the film's plot changes and choices are justified
NB links added after original posting and I didn't much enjoy the play it couldn't decide what it wanted to be.
And finally the skateboarders I mentioned previously.
I love watching the graffiti artists at work in the space under the Purcell Rooms/Queen Elizabeth hall on the South Bank. The smell of the paint, the skill and artistry involved - it is an ever changing canvas.
And then there are the skateboarders...
More graffiti pics then scroll through my most recent upload at Flickr
Had a lovely walk today this and probably what will follow are my favourite pics. (Rest are at Flickr as usual.)
This was just a snap shot taken through an office window near Vauxhall on the South Bank. The Office inside was bare apart from a huge mirror on the wall and a step ladder you can just make out. I love the effect it had.
The interactive fountain is back. It is basically a square divided into half then half again. The sides of each square are marked by sprays which appear and disappear in different configurations. You can run into the middle and then be surrounded by walls of spurting water and have to wait for the next change to 'escape' unless you want to get really wet.
You don't get long to move position and you never know quite what configuration the next series of sprays is going to be.
As you can imagine there is much fun to be had on a sunny day, of which there have been a few lately.
Had a browse around this food market while waiting for the bus. There was a shooting in Wandsworth on the route of the 77 which meant rather than waiting 8-10mins I had to wait an hour, hence the browsing.
The market is on the terrace behind the Royal Festival Hall for the holiday weekend. And these treats were far too tempting so i had one of the pistachio and one of the sesame chews and can report that they were both yummy.
