I dropped you off with Nannan and Taid on the Thursday as we had to get up at 4am Friday in order to catch the 6.18am train. We arrived a little tired but went for a walk from Euston to the London eye and around, it was a wonderful day, but when 3pm hit we needed a little break so we headed to the hotel to recuperate and to leave the bag there also.
We walked through China Town whilst it was all decorated due to Chinese New Year. And decided we would head back there for supper that evening. We chose an all you can eat place which seemed nice enough.
But it didn't live up to my expectations unfortunately. We were herded in and sat down, they promptly asked us which drink of which we got our soft drinks in a can as well as the bill which we had to pay before we got to eat, and cash only was accepted.
I thought fine if that's how they do it then we'll play along. We went to get our food.... The meat there was lovely, but the fried batters were too oily for my taste so I gave up on those. There was a note taped to each table also stating that they had the right to charge more for the food if there was a lot of waste! Bit cheeky in my eyes as we had already spent a fair bit in there to begin with. They also hovered around ready to whip plates away from people. It felt too rushed and I think if we went again I would rather have a relaxed meal in a restaurant.
We went to a couple of pubs following that and went to bed.
The next day we again went for a walk and landed in Trafalgar square, but today there were protesters there about equality and other religions/schools/anything really should get more rights and thoughts also... I think anyway, a lot of it was in a different language!
We watched a few living statues and had photos with them and people watching for a while. Then at 2pm we headed for the theatre. We had stalls seats M row 3 and 4. It was amazing and can understand why people go and see it more than once.
The woman that played Christine had an amazing voice and I'm glad that your dad took me to see it.
The only pity I have to say about the whole trip is the manners that majority of people we met seemed to lack! No one wanted to move out of the way, or say please and thank you or wanted to acknowledge your existence. It's a pity as it took away from those people who were lovely and did mean well.
We walked through China Town whilst it was all decorated due to Chinese New Year. And decided we would head back there for supper that evening. We chose an all you can eat place which seemed nice enough.
But it didn't live up to my expectations unfortunately. We were herded in and sat down, they promptly asked us which drink of which we got our soft drinks in a can as well as the bill which we had to pay before we got to eat, and cash only was accepted.
I thought fine if that's how they do it then we'll play along. We went to get our food.... The meat there was lovely, but the fried batters were too oily for my taste so I gave up on those. There was a note taped to each table also stating that they had the right to charge more for the food if there was a lot of waste! Bit cheeky in my eyes as we had already spent a fair bit in there to begin with. They also hovered around ready to whip plates away from people. It felt too rushed and I think if we went again I would rather have a relaxed meal in a restaurant.
We went to a couple of pubs following that and went to bed.
The next day we again went for a walk and landed in Trafalgar square, but today there were protesters there about equality and other religions/schools/anything really should get more rights and thoughts also... I think anyway, a lot of it was in a different language!
We watched a few living statues and had photos with them and people watching for a while. Then at 2pm we headed for the theatre. We had stalls seats M row 3 and 4. It was amazing and can understand why people go and see it more than once.
The woman that played Christine had an amazing voice and I'm glad that your dad took me to see it.
The only pity I have to say about the whole trip is the manners that majority of people we met seemed to lack! No one wanted to move out of the way, or say please and thank you or wanted to acknowledge your existence. It's a pity as it took away from those people who were lovely and did mean well.
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