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flickums bought me an "experience day voucher". It was a sort of ecape room and cocktails event that involved using an enigma machine! Now, I like escape rooms and puzzles. I like Second World War encryption technology. And I like cocktails. And i like adventuring to London! All in all it was a perfect gift.So decided that since we have a free weekend, we should try it out.
We arrived in London. Flickums had booked a budget hotel - which is fine - but it was a bit oif a shoebox. Also it didn't have a window,m which made it a bit gloomy. But still, it had air conditioning and we really only wanted a bed.
Woke up. Checked email. Had a message. The gist of it was:
"Event cancelled. We've gone bust. Hard luck. By the way we could have told you 4 days ago but decided not to".
Well, that sucks.
Decided to do the other event we were planning. the Science Fiction exhibition at the Science museum. It was... a bit disappointing. It would have been okay if it was cheaper but didn't really feel I was getting 15 quid's worth.
Went to Camden Market. When did it become so trendy? It uused to be somewhere you'd find some actual goths. Okay, it was sunny so maybe they were hiding but still... Feels like it's lost something from when it was a regular haunt of min 20 years ago.
A friend mentioned she was in London and meeting up with some people I also knew. Was unsure whether that was a "sorry I'm busy", or "here's what we're doing come along" and didn't want to gatecrash so sent a message asking. Alas said friend never received the notification.
At this point I was feeling a bit despondent and decided that we'd head home early on Sunday.
Still, we did have an evening free, and felt we should catch a show. We saw Heathers, The Musical.
It's based on the 80's movie - Heathers - a black comedy I've always enjoyed because I have a pretty dark sense of humour. It was at "The Other Palace" theatre - which was fairly new, smallish theatre (300 seats or so) but still in the West End. Definitely enjoyed it. The people behind us really seemed to be getting into it, and also clearly hadn't seen the movie, since there were audible gasps at certain plot developments.
Wrapped up the evening with drinks on a rooftop bar overlooking Victoria Station.
I guess we salvaged the the trip. Feel disappointed not to actually do the event we planned though.
sorry,tlanti that we didn't meet up. Just really wanted to head home.
flickums bought me an "experience day voucher". It was a sort of ecape room and cocktails event that involved using an enigma machine! Now, I like escape rooms and puzzles. I like Second World War encryption technology. And I like cocktails. And i like adventuring to London! All in all it was a perfect gift.So decided that since we have a free weekend, we should try it out. We arrived in London. Flickums had booked a budget hotel - which is fine - but it was a bit oif a shoebox. Also it didn't have a window,m which made it a bit gloomy. But still, it had air conditioning and we really only wanted a bed.
Woke up. Checked email. Had a message. The gist of it was:
"Event cancelled. We've gone bust. Hard luck. By the way we could have told you 4 days ago but decided not to".
Well, that sucks.
Decided to do the other event we were planning. the Science Fiction exhibition at the Science museum. It was... a bit disappointing. It would have been okay if it was cheaper but didn't really feel I was getting 15 quid's worth.
Went to Camden Market. When did it become so trendy? It uused to be somewhere you'd find some actual goths. Okay, it was sunny so maybe they were hiding but still... Feels like it's lost something from when it was a regular haunt of min 20 years ago.
A friend mentioned she was in London and meeting up with some people I also knew. Was unsure whether that was a "sorry I'm busy", or "here's what we're doing come along" and didn't want to gatecrash so sent a message asking. Alas said friend never received the notification.
At this point I was feeling a bit despondent and decided that we'd head home early on Sunday.
Still, we did have an evening free, and felt we should catch a show. We saw Heathers, The Musical.
It's based on the 80's movie - Heathers - a black comedy I've always enjoyed because I have a pretty dark sense of humour. It was at "The Other Palace" theatre - which was fairly new, smallish theatre (300 seats or so) but still in the West End. Definitely enjoyed it. The people behind us really seemed to be getting into it, and also clearly hadn't seen the movie, since there were audible gasps at certain plot developments.
Wrapped up the evening with drinks on a rooftop bar overlooking Victoria Station.
I guess we salvaged the the trip. Feel disappointed not to actually do the event we planned though.
sorry,
tlanti that we didn't meet up. Just really wanted to head home.
