The Bright Lights Fade

[poliphilo]

My mother's carer is back from a weekend in London. She was telling us the prices. £88 for a ticket to The Lion King.  £95 to buy snacks and diet cokes for five people in Covent Garden. I haven't been to London for years now. Less and less am I tempted. I think agoraphobia comes into it too. Mild agoraphobia. All those people, all that traffic.

When my sister was 4 she "composed" a song (different lyrics at every rendition- different tune too) which began "Too old to go To London".

That's me now- too old to go to London. Also too poor

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It's the usual story of any capital city though- go where the tourists go and you'll get ripped off- go where the locals go and you won't.

Lunch and a drink in town? Under a fiver where I tend to go.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

True.

No way I'd choose to eat in Covent Garden.