Travelled
to London recently for a 'cinematic experience' – a great one, but
one that is still running, so I've promised I won't discuss it until
about a week into October once the run has ended. That aside it was
still a packed weekend of fun, with my sister giving me a tour of
Kings Cross and Coal Drops Yard, London's answer to
Spinningfields.
Originally
the drop-off point for trains coming in from the north, loaded with
coal, the area has retained its pit formation but now the sides of
the area are populated with craft shops and trendy cocktail bars,
some of which we dropped into.
We
had a great pizza at Happy Face, underneath which we
found Supermax bar, an uber-cool
cocktail place with underplayed hip hop on vinyl and décor not a
million miles from the Korova Milk Bar in A Clockwork Orange (patrons
much better behaved, though). I recognised this track from this body
popping contest.
I
have Wolf and Badger in my notes as the next bar we went to, but it
seems this is a clothing brand. We definitely went to The Lighter Man,
a bar that looks like an 80's luxury condominium, with a beer garden,
(I liked it) and The German Gymnasium, a huge building,
which formerly was the first gymnasium in the UK. Worth going just
for the sheer size of it. The Tropical Escape cocktail was a good
shout.
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I'd
be keen to check out the area again.
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