A weekend in Hyde Park
My good friend Michelle has wants a full report of my weekend in London...so here goes!
I took Cecily to London last weekend to two days of music in Hyde Park at the Hard Rock Calling concerts. We took a train to central London and having booked a hotel close to the train station, we wandered to our hotel and booked in. Early Saturday afternoon we took the 10 minute stroll to Hyde Park and found a great spot to settle down for the rest of the day.
Despite it meaning we were going to have to carry even more stuff, I sensibly took a waterproof backed picnic blanket, which we lay on for most of the weekend. The weather in Wales on Saturday wasn't very nice, but London was experiencing a proper English summer's day ~ it was hot! Liberal amounts of sunblock applied, we were then entertained for 7 hours by a variety of artists (some of whom I like more than others) including Eric Clapton, but actually I spent the day chilling out and relaxing. A lot of the music was a little more country style than I would have chosen to listen to, but I really enjoyed Jason Miraz and John Mayer
Sunday was a better music day for me, every artist that played entertained me more and more and by the early evening when KT Tunstall took the stage I was up on my feet and dancing. The Police ended the evening with their last UK performance (ever!?!) and I was catapulted back 27 years to my college days (I'm not going to share those with you as I wasn't necessarily the best behaved young lade back then!).
The Police gave us 90 minutes of superb entertainment, I sang my little heart out and bopped til it was time to go back to the hotel. Despite the band sporting a few (or more) grey hairs, they had as much energy as I remember from 1981 and I was just as enthralled by their performance. Here's a youtube video that I found whilst looking today So Lonely filmed by JacoStoned
It was a lovely weekend and a great way to celebrate my birthday (I bought these tickets much earlier in the year as a birthday present to myself).
Chat soon, Liz
All images and text copyright Pretty Practicals 2006 - 2008 except where stated.
I took Cecily to London last weekend to two days of music in Hyde Park at the Hard Rock Calling concerts. We took a train to central London and having booked a hotel close to the train station, we wandered to our hotel and booked in. Early Saturday afternoon we took the 10 minute stroll to Hyde Park and found a great spot to settle down for the rest of the day.
Despite it meaning we were going to have to carry even more stuff, I sensibly took a waterproof backed picnic blanket, which we lay on for most of the weekend. The weather in Wales on Saturday wasn't very nice, but London was experiencing a proper English summer's day ~ it was hot! Liberal amounts of sunblock applied, we were then entertained for 7 hours by a variety of artists (some of whom I like more than others) including Eric Clapton, but actually I spent the day chilling out and relaxing. A lot of the music was a little more country style than I would have chosen to listen to, but I really enjoyed Jason Miraz and John Mayer
Sunday was a better music day for me, every artist that played entertained me more and more and by the early evening when KT Tunstall took the stage I was up on my feet and dancing. The Police ended the evening with their last UK performance (ever!?!) and I was catapulted back 27 years to my college days (I'm not going to share those with you as I wasn't necessarily the best behaved young lade back then!).
The Police gave us 90 minutes of superb entertainment, I sang my little heart out and bopped til it was time to go back to the hotel. Despite the band sporting a few (or more) grey hairs, they had as much energy as I remember from 1981 and I was just as enthralled by their performance. Here's a youtube video that I found whilst looking today So Lonely filmed by JacoStoned
It was a lovely weekend and a great way to celebrate my birthday (I bought these tickets much earlier in the year as a birthday present to myself).
Chat soon, Liz
All images and text copyright Pretty Practicals 2006 - 2008 except where stated.
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