For those of you out and about today on the busiest shopping day of the year… TIME TO TAKE A BREAK from the hell of Oxford Street & surrounding environs! Head for…
Here's LW's Richard III…
Nell of Old Drury, Catherine Street, Covent Garden.
I go here every Wednesday on Ghosts, Gaslight and Guinness. It is a real theater pub. The orchestras of the musicals and the Royal Opera drop in for a drink during the interval and after the show cast and crew from the surrounding theatres drink here. There is a room upstairs which looks out over the Theatre Royal Drury Lane where you can nearly always find a table. They don't do food, but there are a million restaurants nearby and as a result you are not jostling with people eating at tables. It is a good old fashioned boozer with lovely staff and they serve Broadside, my favorite beer. It is named after Nell Gwynne one of the many mistresses of Charles II. There is a tunnel that links the theater with the pub and the King would use it for secret assignations with Nell and be back in his box as the curtain came down.
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Christmas 2016 With London Walks…
On Christmas Day there are TWO London Walks: Walk up an appetite with The Christmas Morning 1660 Walk – meet at 11:00a.m by the big tree in Trafalgar Square
Walk off the pudding with The Christmas Day Charles Dickens Walk – meet by the big tree in Trafalgar Square at 2:00pm
A London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.
