Today was a great day. We started early and went to the Borough Market, to walk around and grab some breakfast. Greg grabbed a coffee from Monmouth Coffee that he had been reading so much about, I grabbed a hot chocolate from a patisserie next door and then we grabbed a croissant and pain au chocolate from one of the vendors set up at the Borough Market. We walked for a while and saw so much wonderful looking food, olives, cheese, bread, produce, mushrooms, tea, etc. We did stop at a few vendors and try what they had to offer.
One of the fish vendors at Borough Market, they had a shark with a fish in its mouth:
We originally had planned to have lunch at a sushi place but were not hungry enough so instead we had tea at the Shipp's Tearoom and then off to Neal's Yard Dairy where we tried (and bought) numerous cheeses.
Here is one of the walls of cheese in Neal's Yard Dairy
Our tea at Shipp's Tearoom
Then we were off to Leicester Square, where we had tickets to see In Celebration, starring Orlando Bloom. We were going to kill time before the play and shop but as we were walking past the theater we noticed a group of people standing around. We realized they were waiting on Orlando to arrive, so we decided to wait with them. Greg was fine with this because it meant less shopping for me, and no complaining about it. We waited for nearly 30 minutes when he arrived, he did not have time to sign any autographs but we got a couple pictures in and then set off to a travel bookstore that we really like and bought a couple of books. We then stopped in for a quick bite to eat before the play. One thing I did like was when Orlando arrived, out of the car jumped his big black dog, I thought it was really cool that he brings his dog with him to his plays.
The play was in the Duke of York's theatre, which is very small but very nice. We really liked the play, it was not a big production, like broadway or anything but it reminded us of our days of taking acting classes and auditioning. This was Orlando Bloom's first stage performance, I had no idea. I assumed he was a trained stage actor who turned to films but that was not the case. After the play ended we went back out side and waited for him to come out to sign autographs. We got some great photos in and I even got his autograph. He did not give out a whole lot so I was very pleased.
Here is a wonderful picture of Orlando, as he is signing my program:
Orlando's dog:
Afterwards, we headed down the street to see The Bourne Ultimatum. It was a great movie, lots of scenes in London and Paris, so we could say we knew exactly where those scenes had taken place. The theater that we went to was really awesome. It was not like a regular move theater. When you buy tickets you get assigned seats. There were 3 levels, just like a play, and there was even an actual stage and curtain that the movie screen was behind. All in all it was a really good experience. Cost a little more than a regular movie, so we won't do that a lot, but it was a good treat.
Then it was off to finding some food, we hadn't eaten an actual meal all day, just snacks and stuff mostly, so it was nice to sit down and eat real food. We went to Pizza Express, which is a very well-known restaurant here but is highly recommended in all of the magazines and books that we have. We were eating our pizza, and realized that everyone else was eating with a fork and knife, so we had to be more civilized than the American culture trained us for. Oh well, it was a very nice pizza restaurant that we would definitely go back to. We caught a bus and headed home, got back around 10 pm, I think the dogs were very happy to see us.
Disclaimer: Greg wants everyone to know that he had nothing to do with the title of this blog or the opinions expressed in the section about the actor.
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