I went out to dinner with two
teaching friends on Wednesday night before Switzerland, we decided to go and check out Brick Lane…
it is renowned for being the Indian food capital of London! As we walked along
the street we could tell we were in the right place – at least every second
building was an Indian restaurant! They all had someone standing out the front
spinning their deal with all the pedestrians passing by. We set ourselves a
challenge to get a decent deal – Let the haggling begin! We were offered all
sorts of things for rather cheap prices; some came close to offering their
first born just to get us to eat in their restaurant! They would all talk down
their competition as well, “they don’t have big servings”, “they don’t give you
much meat in your curry!” (to which I replied, “I’m a vegetarian” and left the
poor guy speechless!) In the end we came to a deal with what looked like a
fairly busy and popular place, we scored ourselves two bottles of wine,
starters, rice, naan bread and a main each, all for £10 each. A pretty good
deal! The food was pretty good and the service was quick, so we even threw in a
tip J
The following night I went to a
theatre event organized by one of the teaching agencies (they have regular
social events). We had dinner together in West End, and then went to the Comedy
Theatre to see The Children’s Hour, a play with Keira Knightly as one of the
main characters. We were right at the very back in the cheap seats, but it was
an interesting play. Once you zoned in on the characters you forgot how high up
you were! We were a bit far away to pick out detailed facial expressions, but
it didn’t really affect my understanding of the story. It had its funny one
liners, but the ending was quite full-on and a little depressing! All in all,
it was good theatre and I’m looking forward to going to see some others… maybe
Billy Elliott, Mamma Mia, The Lion King?
