Archive for the 'Eating out' Category

IMAX scuba diving and crispy duck

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Yesterday, we finally got around to going to the IMAX film, released last year, of Deep Sea 3D. (I’d been keen to see it ever since I read a fascinating DIVE magazine article about the filming of one of the sequences and how they’d almost had a fatality when a diver’s specialised scuba equipment [...]

Fleeting visit to Frankfurt

Monday, November 6th, 2006

After long, long months of drawing out the project I started on back in January 2005, the start of the global roll-out suddenly came upon us in a rush.
And because the London office is in the middle of a big office move, we’d decided to start with the German offices… and also persuaded the project [...]

Wimpy (TM) on steroids

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

A little while back, we took advantage of the lovely long summer evenings to go a bit out of our way to find our evening meal. In this case our destination was the Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Bayswater – about 15 minutes walk from Notting Hill Tube.
The GBK chain has been [...]

Great steak

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Tom and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary this week with a trip to The Gaucho Grill. These guys are renowned for their steaks but we had a feeling they wouldn’t come cheap so we were saving them for a special occasion.
There are a number of Gaucho Grills around London these days; [...]

Ex-pat supper

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

We had a fun excursion last night – visiting a new area, socialising with a large number of other (mostly new-to-us) South Africans, and trying a new restaurant.
The occasion was Gavin’s birthday supper – Gavin being a friend of Tom’s from ThoroughTec days, who moved out to London last year in the wake of a [...]

Lazy Sunday afternoon

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

On a whim, we decided to take our car to be cleaned at our favourite car wash this afternoon. (It kind of needs to be a whim in this case because getting to this car-wash is a bit of an excursion – so just needing to have the car washed is not normally [...]