I had so much fun on the Santa Skate on Saturday night that I went back for more on Sunday. It was the final Sunday Stroll of the year and given that most of London’s skating community was hungover from the Santa Skate after-party, it was unsurprisingly pretty small. It was a shortish skate (about [...]

Saturday night was the Santa Skate – probably about the most fun you can have on eight wheels! Picture 300 Santas skating through the streets of London – Kensington High St, Chelsea, Embankment, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden, Oxford St. People came from as far as Germany and France to join in and we [...]

I won’t be in London for Christmas but that doesn’t stop me enjoying a London Christmas in the lead up to the big day and what could be more Christmassy than a visit to Covent Garden to see the ballet of The Nutcracker? I met up with Natalie and Jess on Friday night to see [...]

Well, I said I wasn’t sure I liked musicals but I LOVED Avenue Q! The boy and I went to see it last night and it was brilliant! Avenue Q is a musical starring puppets and humans living together on a street in Brooklyn (Avenue A is the end of town, this is Avenue Q). [...]

The West End of London, like Broadway in New York, is famous for its long-running musicals. I’ve been in London for two and a half years now and while I’ve seen a lot of theatre, I’ve seen hardly any musicals. I took Natalie to see Mary Poppins for her birthday in February 2005 and that, [...]

Where on earth is Caitlin in London? Well firstly she is not in London right now, she is in Sydney. But she will be back in London on Monday. I didn’t mean to leave my blog languishing with nary an update for so long – the last post was 7 November and it’s already December! [...]