London Calling

I know I’m back three days at this point, but I needed to gather my thoughts on the few days I spent in London from last Wednesday through to Sunday. So here’s a breakdown of what I got up to and some pics This post features some thoughts on Frightfest. I’ll be posting full reviews before the end of the week on the great Culch.ie and would like to thank Greg Day from Clout Communications for sorting me out with tickets for the weekend. It was a most enjoyable one.

Wednesday

We arrived in London around the 1 o’clock mark. It’s quite a trek out to Hyde Park where we were staying, and we didn’t arrive into our apartment until around 4. 6 hours traveling can be tiresome, so we bought some take-away and rested ourselves, before heading out to see the excellent ‘Wicked’ in Victoria. I’ve seen that show twice now and am still in Love with it.

Thursday

This was our day of tourist activity and we packed it full of interesting places. First up was London Dungeon, which was loads of fun as usual. We went to the Tate Modern museum in the afternoon, followed by the London Eye. We were absolutely wrecked by the end of the day, but still found some energy to meet friends for a meal at Wahacas.

Friday

The morning was spent shopping. We hit some great comic stores like Orbital Comics near Leicester Square and The Forbidden Planet Superstore which is absolutely huge.

We also managed to visit the great Hamleys and of course, not forgetting the Apple Store (where the Snow Leopard upgrade was purchased. It’s a brilliant upgrade BTW. Speeds up the computer nicely and creates lots of new space ) . There were so many more shops that I can’t even remember most of them. We headed onto Frightfest in Leicester Square for the evening where we watched two movies.

Colin was first. This one’s as Indie as you get, made on a budget of just £43 or something ridiculous like that. It’s a really valiant effort, but dies halfway through, only to be resurrected by a really good ending.

The second movie of the night was a French film called ‘La Horde‘. There’s an embargo on reviews until the film is released worldwide. But I will say this. It’s really French.

I’ll post about the rest of the weekend and have some more reviews from Frighfest too tomorrow

Tagged as: Apple, Brian Cox, Colin, Empire Cinema, Forbidden Planet, Frightfest, La Horde, Leicester Square, Lundon Dungeon, Orbital Comics London, Snow Leopard, Tate Modern Museum, The London Eye, Theatre, Victoria, Wicked