Sunday, November 30, 2003
Courtney Pine was fantastic. Our tickets were on the top level at the Royal Festival Hall but we still had a great view. The other jazz concert we went to this past Thursday, Nathan Haines, was in Cabot Hall at Canary Wharf. The set up was very different. We all sat around big round tables, kind of like being in a awards ceremony, sipping our drinks. Haines was in fine form and played a few of our favourites from the Sound Travels album as well as some new stuff from Squire for Hire. The English crowd were abit subdued. In the end Joseph and I went to the back to boogy. Canary Wharf is very flash. It was redeveloped to attract big business so it is very different from the old skool look in the middle of town. It was more similar to the business area in Singapore.
On Friday it was a beautiful London day. I'm very fortunate to be working in the middle of Victoria. I walked to Green Park and had lunch at Buckingham Palace.....well just outside with the tourists (o:
On Saturday we went on our first day trip to Cambridge to visit my friends Audrey and Michael. They both studied at the university so gave us a great tour of the famous colleges. One highlight was visiting the Christopher Wren Library at Trinity College (the richest college in Cambridge...it's rumoured that they own one third of London!!). Inside they had many original manuscripts in the handwriting of famous writers and poets eg: Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne and poems by Lord Byron. They also had some amazing original historical documents like Issac Newton's letters to a colleague discussing what names to give anodes, cathodes and ions. And a account of a siting of the first atom bomb explosion and a speech written about how humanity should band together against the atom bomb by notable people whose names escape me. So amazing and more interesting to me than the ancient ruins in Sri Lanka because I can relate to them more. You feel privileged and humbled to be walking in the same places where these great thinkers walked.
We had a lovely pub lunch and Audrey cooked us a great dinner in the evening. So much food! I was ready to explode. As the Christmas season grows near I'm preparing for the inevitable expansion of my waist line!
Well, it's a beautiful day out there so I best get out and get walking to try to keep fit (o:
We have the Micheal Franti and Spearhead concert to look forward to this week.
On Friday it was a beautiful London day. I'm very fortunate to be working in the middle of Victoria. I walked to Green Park and had lunch at Buckingham Palace.....well just outside with the tourists (o:
On Saturday we went on our first day trip to Cambridge to visit my friends Audrey and Michael. They both studied at the university so gave us a great tour of the famous colleges. One highlight was visiting the Christopher Wren Library at Trinity College (the richest college in Cambridge...it's rumoured that they own one third of London!!). Inside they had many original manuscripts in the handwriting of famous writers and poets eg: Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne and poems by Lord Byron. They also had some amazing original historical documents like Issac Newton's letters to a colleague discussing what names to give anodes, cathodes and ions. And a account of a siting of the first atom bomb explosion and a speech written about how humanity should band together against the atom bomb by notable people whose names escape me. So amazing and more interesting to me than the ancient ruins in Sri Lanka because I can relate to them more. You feel privileged and humbled to be walking in the same places where these great thinkers walked.
We had a lovely pub lunch and Audrey cooked us a great dinner in the evening. So much food! I was ready to explode. As the Christmas season grows near I'm preparing for the inevitable expansion of my waist line!
Well, it's a beautiful day out there so I best get out and get walking to try to keep fit (o:
We have the Micheal Franti and Spearhead concert to look forward to this week.
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