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Babylon at The Roof Gardens

After our trip to the Natural History Museum to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit, we went to Babylon at the Roof Gardens for dinner. This Richard Branson-owned restaurant (obvious from the many Virgin Experience brochures lying about the bar area) is on the 7th floor of the “Derry and Toms” building [...]

Cocktails and Wildlife Photography

The Natural History Museum is hosting the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit. This is a long-running, intense competition organised by The Natural History Museum and the BBC Wildlife Magazine; for this 2006 exhibit, about 20,000 entries were received and approximately 75 made it into the exhibit. It’s so intense that for this [...]

Two days in Belfast…

is long enough for one person to see all the sights. Now, that sounds bad, when it’s not supposed to; I just overplanned my trip. I arrived Friday morning and taxied into town; the driver dropped me off in the high street shopping area and told me I would easily find breakfast in [...]

Mamma Mia

I tried to take advantage of the last minute discount theatre tickets yesterday but I wasn’t interested in any of the matinees that were discounted. I chanced it and phoned the Prince of Wales theatre to see if there were tickets available for Mamma Mia and there was one, so I snapped it up. [...]

A week of eating

Last week was rather hectic, with my Birthday and MS colleagues in town, so we ended up eating out most of the week. (Most of you have probably noticed that eating is one of our favourite hobbies.)
S. worked from home on Wednesday and we went out for a quick lunch at Nyonya [...]

Bumpkin – Part 3

They’ve gone and changed the menu. My stomach dropped to my feet when I saw that they removed the pear & stilton salad and the grilled scallops. They did keep the roasted squash salad but I was still befuddled. So I ordered my favourite cocktail – the Strawberry Fields – strawberries and [...]

Le Pain Quotidien

We needed a place for lunch Saturday that was not a pub. We were on our way to a Spanish tapas restuarant when we spotted Le Pain Quotidien, a small, unassuming bakery located on a quiet street in Kensington. You’d easily pass it by if it were not for the sandwich board announcing [...]