Gosh, I didn’t realise it’s been a while since I’ve posted. We’ve been extremely busy doing fun things and now I’m tired of doing fun things and would love to sleep for hours… Well I can’t because I need to catch up with things starting the opening of the Drum Cafe on Wednesday evening…
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Drum Café is a corporate team-bonding concept, and is now gaining popularity as a place for strangers to get together and spend the evening banging on African drums. The launch party is on the 13th September and the first night open to the public is the 20th September. Acclaimed South African drumming company Drum Cafe who have wowed audiences all over the world with their Interactive drumming events for corporate and private clients is now open to the public.
Drum Cafe started in 1996 in Johannesburg and opened the famous Drum Cafe venue in Cape Town in 1998 .Due to the enormous success of the Drum Cafe performing for major corporations and private events around the world the Drum Cafe went international. They now have fourteen offices globally and a theatre show in New York that has been going for sixteen months. Drum Cafe has done 12,000 events in 28 countries and drummed for many world leaders and celebrities, the most recent list include Nelson Mandela, Nicole Kidman, Karl Lagerfeld and President George W Bush.
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I. picked me up from home and we drove into London to the Times building where C. works. A. works nearby so we waited for him to come over. We drove to near London Bridge and parked the car. I like the city a lot, it’s not that busy actually, wonderful buildings everywhere, old and majestic! We went to a pub to have drink first and then we walked over to Glaziers Hall where we were welcomed by drinks and food. I had a nice fizzy wine [several to be honest…] and the food was excellent, original African food. I had shrimps and rice, ribs and spicy chicken, lovely!
The show started at about 20.00 and lasted for an hour and a half. It was cool although the drum I had was not really good, didn’t make much sound. We had fun and it was a very nice experience! Here are some pictures taken that evening.
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Oxford Street
I took the bus today which was cool! It took about 45 minutes to get to Oxford Street where we were supposed to go shopping. It’s cool to be in a London double decker, it’s the perfect way to do some sight-seeing and navigation at the same time. I loved it! We had coffee at Starbucks and then went separate ways. I. and A. went to buy a drum kit, A.’s latest gadget. We went looking for clothes… I found two new dresses but they don’t fit very well so I need to adjust them. A. didn’t really like them so I hope he will after I’ve changed them… He’d better!
We met up after a few hours and had a drink in the tiniest pub I’ve ever been to so far. We then took a cab and went to Borough Market near London Bridge. Borough Market is grateful for the coverage it regularly receives through the press, radio and television. The market has also become a special favourite amongst celebrity chefs. You can always spot a famous face amongst the crowd! I didn’t see Jamie though, he must have been in bed with a hangover… 
It is a really nice market! Fresh vegetables, fruit, fish and we even found my favourite Belgium beer: “Rochefort” which was way too expensive [over £3,- per bottle] but A. bought a few anyway. I finally found pecan nuts so I have some on stock. It was very hard to find them but I know now where to get them from. We then had lunch at Wright Brothers Oyster and Porter House. We had to wait for our seats for quite a long time but the food was worth waiting for! While we were waiting A. ordered a bottle of champagne to celebrate moving to the UK, his new job and my emigration… I never had shrimps like that before: so creamy and full of flavour! The others had oysters as well but I didn’t eat them. I don’t really like them to be honest. That champagne was good: I was totally tipsy after only two glasses…
We took a cab to I. and C.’s place to chill, cook dinner and watch a movie. Saw ‘The Butterfly Effect’ again, very good movie. A. has been playing on his new gadget all evening. I have to admit it’s really cool! It has been a wonderful day!!!
