Brown Girl in London

Hanging out

On Saturday HD and I felt like going out. We wanted to do something inexpensive and fun so we decided to go to the movies, but not just at any old movie theatre, no we wanted to see a movie at Leicester Square. This is where all the major movie premieres happen in London and what better place to see a flick on a Saturday night (last night Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx were there for the Miami Vice premiere). So off we went to Leicester Square. It was a hot night on the tube, I assume it's due to being so far underground but I don't really know. Any little breeze that you're lucky enough to feel is refreshing, even if it is stale air.

So, we didn't end up going to the movies - we were going to see X-Men 3 - because you have to pick your seats when you purchase your tickets and the only seats that were available were in the 2nd row from the screen. That's too close, I can't see the action and feel like I'm going to be sick. Instead we just walked walked around and enjoyed goings-on. Both of us enjoy people-watching and there's plenty of that to do down there. As expected there were lots of tourists and I brought my camera this time to join in the snapping fun.


This is the Switzerland clock and there are set times when a little show is performed - figures of shepherds and animals and other things emerge from one door, do a little twirl, and disappear behind another door. It was kind of neat but HD was less than impressed.

This is the garden in the middle of Leicester Square - it used to be a drug haven for junkies with lots of used needles lying around but there was a clean-up in the 90s and it's locked at night to keep out the unwanted activities. That's Shakespeare in the middle.

posted by RC @ 11:22 AM