Highlight of the day - Cafe Gourmand - a lovely little cafe and bistrot on Lexington Street in Soho. It feels very French inside (I used to live in Paris, so I know innit) and it's a lovely, peaceful space in which to escape from the hustle and bustle of Soho. The staff were really friendly (possibly the only bit that didn't remind me of Paris) and the prices were very reasonable. I only had a coffee, but was very tempted by all the cakes. I will definitely be going back for some mini gourmands (little cakes, just a mouthful) or their posh meat pies - I don't think I've ever seen a pie look so delicate! I'm also quite tempted by their green cookie tea. I was kicking myself for having eaten elsewhere beforehand!
Embarrassing moment of the day - I call it the 'tube lean.' You know, when you think you're perfectly steady and don't need to hold on and then it jolts off and you rather embarrassingly lean on the person next to you. That's really embarrassing, right? However, you normally steady yourself and are off of them within a milisecond, mumble sorry, and go back to avoiding eye contact. I went for a bit of a spectacular one yesterday - it was a 2-second full-frontal lean. Quite a masterpiece. Why I was facing this guy, I don't know. How the tube was going at such a thrust that it lasted 2 seconds, I also don't know. He was also a really attractive guy, which just made the whole ordeal (allbeit 2 seconds, but let's face it, 2 seconds of British awkwardness feels like a lifetime!). I felt like the whole carriage were staring at me for the rest of my journey. They obviously weren't. Or were they??
So, why was yesterday so spontaneous? I had planned on doing nothing this weekend, but have been talking to friends recently about how my life revolves around lists. I want more spontaneity damnit! Then, I saw tickets on lastminute.com a few days ago for My Big Italian Gay Wedding at the Greenwich Theatre. It's come from New York and the tickets were a good price, so me and a friend went on the spur of the moment. It was really fun - loud, proud, camp and, in places, hilarious. It was about an Italian New Yorker getting married to his boyfriend and all the hoo-ha that surrounded it. It had a lot of visual humour, funny characters and farsical storyline. There was a great atmosphere, with people from the crowd joining in on jokes and interacting with the actors. Some singing, some dancing and a whole lot of camping. A few of the jokes were very America-centric and went a bit over my head - I was hoping they might have localised it a little bit at least, just by picking things that were still American, but more relevant/famous here. I'd be really interested to know if laughs came at different places in the UK and the US actually. Me and my friend then went to the gay pub in Greenwich called the Prince. I then ran down the road like a big poofta about to miss the last DLR. I caught it.
Earlier in the day, I spontaneously met my friend to go the Southbank Food Market and had a lovely Beijing-style pork pancake from Mei Mei street food. It did remind me of what I'd eaten when I actually went to Beijing, except that she'd added meat, which made it even better in my book. I may have also sampled about 15 other stalls' foods! It was such a lovely day to mooch around London. We then went over to Trafalgar Square and watched the outdoor pillow fight (see photo above). We didn't join - we're not that spontaneous yet, one step at a time. Then we went to Cafe Gourmand, then I splurged £50 in the River Island sale (all in the name of spontaneity of course). Spontaneous is fun, but it's also expensive, and it also left me running (literally at time) late for everything I did. Still, a great day all round! Maybe the start of spring? Dare I hope?
Embarrassing moment of the day - I call it the 'tube lean.' You know, when you think you're perfectly steady and don't need to hold on and then it jolts off and you rather embarrassingly lean on the person next to you. That's really embarrassing, right? However, you normally steady yourself and are off of them within a milisecond, mumble sorry, and go back to avoiding eye contact. I went for a bit of a spectacular one yesterday - it was a 2-second full-frontal lean. Quite a masterpiece. Why I was facing this guy, I don't know. How the tube was going at such a thrust that it lasted 2 seconds, I also don't know. He was also a really attractive guy, which just made the whole ordeal (allbeit 2 seconds, but let's face it, 2 seconds of British awkwardness feels like a lifetime!). I felt like the whole carriage were staring at me for the rest of my journey. They obviously weren't. Or were they??
So, why was yesterday so spontaneous? I had planned on doing nothing this weekend, but have been talking to friends recently about how my life revolves around lists. I want more spontaneity damnit! Then, I saw tickets on lastminute.com a few days ago for My Big Italian Gay Wedding at the Greenwich Theatre. It's come from New York and the tickets were a good price, so me and a friend went on the spur of the moment. It was really fun - loud, proud, camp and, in places, hilarious. It was about an Italian New Yorker getting married to his boyfriend and all the hoo-ha that surrounded it. It had a lot of visual humour, funny characters and farsical storyline. There was a great atmosphere, with people from the crowd joining in on jokes and interacting with the actors. Some singing, some dancing and a whole lot of camping. A few of the jokes were very America-centric and went a bit over my head - I was hoping they might have localised it a little bit at least, just by picking things that were still American, but more relevant/famous here. I'd be really interested to know if laughs came at different places in the UK and the US actually. Me and my friend then went to the gay pub in Greenwich called the Prince. I then ran down the road like a big poofta about to miss the last DLR. I caught it.
Earlier in the day, I spontaneously met my friend to go the Southbank Food Market and had a lovely Beijing-style pork pancake from Mei Mei street food. It did remind me of what I'd eaten when I actually went to Beijing, except that she'd added meat, which made it even better in my book. I may have also sampled about 15 other stalls' foods! It was such a lovely day to mooch around London. We then went over to Trafalgar Square and watched the outdoor pillow fight (see photo above). We didn't join - we're not that spontaneous yet, one step at a time. Then we went to Cafe Gourmand, then I splurged £50 in the River Island sale (all in the name of spontaneity of course). Spontaneous is fun, but it's also expensive, and it also left me running (literally at time) late for everything I did. Still, a great day all round! Maybe the start of spring? Dare I hope?
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