Flew to London,via Paris,on Thursday morning for a five day break in London.
Had a great time with Jes,even though it was for a short time!
Met at the Punch and Judy pub in Covent Garden,actually I met Jes at the station as she wasn't sure where the pub was.Later went to the Portrait Awards exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery;there were some very interesting paintings especially a really good a painting of a Polish girl entitled 'iDeath',in which the girl was listening to music on her i-Pod but it was not one of the winning entries;the judges seem to look for some other winning quality.
Some of the painitngs were so detailed that they looked like photographs which made it difficult to tell whether the work of art of was a painting or a photograph.
In the evening had dinner at the Banana Canteen Restaurant;the place was packed out and pretty lively.Mum and me had Malaysian Chicken curry while Jes had Pad Thai,then we shared Green Thai pancakes with some icecream,yummy!!
The next day we saw Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Globe Theatre;it's not easy to understand Old English but the play was enjoyable especially as it was performed in such a lovely theatre;the two women who played the wives were really funny!
Afterwards we had something to drink in the Globe cafe overlooking the river Thames.
I saw Jes off at Euston train station,she would have liked to stayed longer with me but she had to go back to Buckingham to get ready for her early flight,early Monday morning,to Adu Dhabi and her new job.
Saturday visited the Thames Festival and did some dancing to a live swing band;by the Modern Tate Museum.
In the evening saw the film 'Inception' at the Imax cinema;a good film with plenty of action but half way through the film I managed to guess the end of the story.A flm I'd like to see again but in a more comfortable cinema as the Imax was cramped for space for leg room and it was tiring sitting akwardly for so long.
