Today we went on the Jack the ripper walk from 'Walks of London'. We only got to Mitre Square as the directions were abit unhelpful if you are not a local. It was all a little disappointing as most the places are modern buildings (thanks to the blitz) or slightly pretentious shops (thanks to redevelopment). As we had left it quite late we decided to head to Covent Garden.
We eat cupcakes at Ella's ( the end store in the middle, on the left). We also had ice cream at the Ice cream Boutique (facing the Jubilee market) which was strangely designed to look like a biker bar but the ice cream was good.
We then went to see Woman in Black at The Fortune Theatre (opposite Shrek: The Musical). A brilliant Victorian horror using a minimal set and alot of suggestion to create the frights. It was beautifully told and very atmospheric! The only thing that spoiled it was that there was a class of schoolkids in who insisted on screaming at everything. OMG a door is open! AHHHHH! It ruined it a little bit for me but the two actors were great and very believable. We also discovered that we were at the 9000th show as the Producer jumped on stage at the end and made a speech (we also saw the cake!)
Facilties: Ok I don't know who thought putting toilets in what was quite clearly an old cleaners cupboard was a good idea but it doesn't work! Basically they had shoehorned two cubicles in to a tiny room down a tiny corridor. It was hard to get in when there wasn't a queue, I didn't attempt it at the interval. As we stayed in the stalls we didn't go to the bar and although the Merchandise store had some interesting things it wasn't open at the end.
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