{"id":1175,"date":"2011-09-03T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2011-09-03T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:29:04","slug":"capital-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Capital times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back from three days in the Smoke where we were delighted to meet up with chum Ruth.\u00a0 We had originally planned to go to both Cambridge and London but Paul’s operation made us take a more realistic approach.\u00a0\u00a0 We saw two extremely good plays, Much Ado About Nothing<\/a> <\/em>with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, and War Horse<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 We were buzzing after the first and I at least was a snot-faced wreck after the second.\u00a0 Other than that we walked a great deal, what I liked was suddenly finding yourself in a street of specialist shops,\u00a0 for example Cecil Court<\/a>, which has a fascinating history and I see here on Wiki is rumoured to be the inspiration for Diagon Alley.\u00a0 I have to report, I did say to Paul that I was having a Diagon Alley moment during that same walk.\u00a0 More importantly, and not the subject of conjecture, the infant prodigy Mozart lodged there during a visit to England in 1764.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this street had antiquarian booksellers, stamps, maps, coins and bank notes enough to keep any collector very happily occupied for ages.\u00a0\u00a0 On display in one window was a particularly poignant\u00a0 trillion dollar bank note from Zimbabwe.\u00a0 We also took the fast boat to Greenwich, there to meet Ruth’s brother Richard, who is Curator at The National Maritime Museum.\u00a0 Some pictures below.<\/p>\n

Other highlights included a large variety of garden squares to amble through,\u00a0 including Soho Square where there is a bench named for Kirsty McColl<\/a>, and Britain’s own Tin Pan Alley, Denmark Street.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back from three days in the Smoke where we were delighted to meet up with chum Ruth.\u00a0 We had originally planned to go to both Cambridge and London but Paul’s operation made us take a more realistic approach.\u00a0\u00a0 We saw two extremely good plays, Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,29,30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-books","category-family","category-friends","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}