Scene and heard

As a sign of just how serious ‘an item’ Jan and I are, we planned this trip after having been together for a little over a month, with me already having met her Mother and Brother in Los Angeles. The timing was to take in a trip to Paris for her birthday. I’m under orders to not reveal the number!!!

Well, by the time we left, Jackie had begged me to propose to Jan on our last day there, so it’s fair to say that she and my Mum both absolutely loved her! I should add that the feeling was entirely mutual, and Jan has even talked about us living for a while over there at some point. She loved our time there.

We arrived on Friday, January 23rd, and had two very lazy days before heading into the West End on Sunday. We had a long walk from Oxford Circus, taking in Liberty’s, Carnaby and Regent Streets, Leicester Square, Soho/Chinatown and Covent Garden, stopping in an incredible restaurant on Shaftesbury Avenue, New Mayflower – perhaps the best Chinese food I’ve ever had. Most people in there were Chinese, and if you don’t book on a weekend night, expect a lengthy wait.

The next day we were back in the West End. We got half price tickets to see Hairspray, which is funny, as it is American and the two things we have seen on Broadway, Spamalot and Billy Elliot, are both English! What can I say about this show? The younger folks seemed to like the passé humour more than we did, and I only really liked 4 or 5 of the tunes. So this doesn’t get my recommendation.



Between buying the tickets and seeing the show, we walked around Knightsbridge.