Paris Dec 2009 - arrive with no sleep
Arrive in Paris on Eurostar around 915 am only 15 mins later than planned due to the Eurostar / Tunnel chaos of the week before
Worst checkin experience ive had to put up with at Eurostar St Pancras - but probably made worse by the lack of sleep the night before.
Got up at 3am as couldn’t be bothered lying in bed listening to BBC World Service anymore and had pretty much read ever RSS post / feed that I have on my mobile.
Paris … lovely apartment on 3rd floor about 1 min from the Seine / 2 mins to Notre Dame Cathedral in the Latin Quarter. Well chosen apartment - Ian has excellent taste!
later … after food / trying to sleep / Walked past Pantheon up to Catacombs but they closed at 4pm (we arrived there at 355pm), walked back via lovely, gloomy Monparnasse Cemetery.
NV MUMM Cordon Rouge Champagne was £24.99 at John Lewis …
is 550TL in Istanbul
Donmar Warehouse | Life Is A Dream
Friday 10 October 2009
Spanish theatre from their ‘golden age’ a dramatic play about royalty and power. Dominic West ex The Wire stars in this play as the son who is imprisoned all his life as the King feared the son would be a tyrant ruler and destroy the kingdom of Poland.
Reviews …
★★★★★
‘I was transfixed by the entire evening’s extraordinary tale’ Daily Mail
★★★★
‘The acting is a joy to behold’ The Guardian
★★★★
‘Classical acting with a twinkle in its eye’ The Times
★★★★
‘Drama takles the real questions. What a rich and disconcerting play this is’ Daily Telegraph
Prick Up Your Ears - Grieving Matt Lucas pulls out of West End play after death of ex-partner Kevin McGee - Times Online »
We saw this Friday 2 October
Play based on the lives of Joe Orton & Ken Halliwell - this is the 2009 production about the 2 lovers from the 1960’s … Ken Halliwell (played by Matt Lucas) is the jealous boyfriend, rejected thespian to the successful Joe Orton. It all ends in murder.
Joe Orton is best remembered for Loot! and Entertaining Mrs Sloane
Midemnet 2009 - Cannes, France
Professor Kelvin (the scientist)
Radio has no future - airplanes will not fly
NRJ Music Awards 2009 Cannes, France
the view is looking down on to the black and white squares on the stage …. i was that far away!
