Westending it

Shez and I saw a couple of more shows today - gotta get your fix while you can.  We saw the matinée of Blood Brothers which is a musical that follows the life of twins separated at birth and brought up on either side of the tracks.  It was quite good, though a but has a sad ending.

In the evening we saw Mousetrap which is the longest continuously running play in the world.  The first run of this Agatha Christie classic was in 1952, and it's been going strong ever since.  I think we saw the  23,688th performance (see the pic of the sign to prove it). I remember thinking about going and seeing it back when we lived in London in 2003, but that would have only been a miserly 21,000th odd show.

Oh, and the theatre was opposite the real Ivy (as opposed to the pretender on George St in Sydney).  We didn't go in to star gaze - there's no ten quid pre-theatre menus on offer here - but we did see a couple of paparazzi skulking around outside.  That's about as close to fame as I need to get.

Here are a few more pics of Shez and I out and about in London.

Shez and I headed to South Kensington to find a little cafe that we used to serve the best chocolate and banana crepes this side of Bruges.  Alas, the quality has suffered over the intervening six years, but we did find another great french cafe (pic) just across the road which will probably ensure that we make the trek out to South Kenso next time we're in town.

Ok, so I might be standing in front of an L instead of a D.  Never-the-less, we couldn't resist the thought of a Ditchfield St in the West End - seems a little more impressive than a Ditchfield Rd in the Piliga Scrub!

Wandering around the West End of an evening is great fun.  We enjoy the cafes (I may have mentioned that), people watching and generally just looking at the huge variety of architecture.