I had so much fun on the Santa Skate on Saturday night that I went back for more on Sunday. It was the final Sunday Stroll of the year and given that most of London’s skating community was hungover from the Santa Skate after-party, it was unsurprisingly pretty small. It was a shortish skate (about [...]
Saturday night was the Santa Skate - probably about the most fun you can have on eight wheels!
Picture 300 Santas skating through the streets of London - Kensington High St, Chelsea, Embankment, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden, Oxford St. People came from as far as Germany and France to join in and we [...]
I won’t be in London for Christmas but that doesn’t stop me enjoying a London Christmas in the lead up to the big day and what could be more Christmassy than a visit to Covent Garden to see the ballet of The Nutcracker?
I met up with Natalie and Jess on Friday night to see [...]
Well, I said I wasn’t sure I liked musicals but I LOVED Avenue Q! The boy and I went to see it last night and it was brilliant!
Avenue Q is a musical starring puppets and humans living together on a street in Brooklyn (Avenue A is the end of town, this is Avenue Q). It’s [...]
The West End of London, like Broadway in New York, is famous for its long-running musicals. I’ve been in London for two and a half years now and while I’ve seen a lot of theatre, I’ve seen hardly any musicals. I took Natalie to see Mary Poppins for her birthday in February 2005 and that, [...]
The Brazilian Government has announced it will protect vast tracts of the Amazon Rainforest (an area of undisturbed rainforest bigger than England). I don’t know all the detail yet but conservationists are pleased so it sounds like the real deal.
UPDATE: Some more detail in this report from The Independent. Apparently it will be enforced by [...]
Where on earth is Caitlin in London? Well firstly she is not in London right now, she is in Sydney. But she will be back in London on Monday.
I didn’t mean to leave my blog languishing with nary an update for so long - the last post was 7 November and it’s already December! I [...]