It has been another long week at work, with the added bonus that I have just been paid. This means that we've been able to plan a trip away at the end of the month to Paris going via Eurostar and staying 4 nights at an apartment instead of the usual hostel experience. This comes with the difficulty that I know next to no French, so communication will be a slight issue, but something I'm sure can be surmounted with plenty of gesturing. I'm looking forward to this!
This weekend we got up on Saturday morning and walked down to the Olympia 2 venue to see the Doctor Who Experience. We got there more than 20 minutes early yet still had to line up outside, then queue again going up a staircase and then again once after we handed our tickets over to enter the exhibition. This did nothing to curb our excitement however, as we waited to enter the 'experience' part there were several sets from the last season of Doctor Who set about, including a WWII dalek, Van Gough's studio, the underground lizard place from Hungry Earth/Cold Blood and the weather machine from the Vampires of Venice.
When we were finally ushered into the 'experience' (in which no photography was allowed) we were placed in front of a movie screen which played a 'catch up' video of the last series focusing on the Pandorica and the crack in time. It ended with the crack in time filling the screen and the screen actually splitting along this line to allow us to step through.
On the other side was the museum on board Starship Earth which contained various artefacts from around time and space which were explained to us by a brilliantly realistic face projected onto a model, before the sirens sounded and the Doctor appeared on the TV screen. Apparently he was trapped and needed us to find the TARDIS, which materialised out of thin air to the side of the room a second later.
We were ushered in (it really is bigger on the inside!) and had to fly it to him, only to be somehow captured and exit onto a strange alien ship. We all gathered and suddenly 'EXTERMINATE INTRUDERS!' Daleks came out and claimed we would be enslaved until the Doctor and Davros' rebel Daleks saved us (we watched a space battle from out the front viewport of the ship) and we rushed down a time corridor with the Doctor's voice urging us on and telling us "Whatever you do, don't blink!"
You know what that means? Weeping Angels. I have to say at this point I was actually kinda freaking out. There were Angels in the darkness on either side waiting for us to blink so they could steal our potential time energy. We almost ran through to the next room which was set up like a dig site with a 3D screen in front of us. This had more Daleks and Weeping Angels and Cybermen all reaching out of the screen to grab us.
The Doctor was saved, the universe was set back to normal and we were ejected into the exhibition area where various props and monsters were set up for us to hang out with. I wont go on about this as I took a lot of pictures which I have uploaded here.
After our time here, we moved on down to road to Whole Foods Market which is a big market in Kensington with the purpose of selling only organic, non processed foods. There is a nice food hall upstairs which had a raw food restaurant and Japanese hotpot, but also a more common food area where I bought a Mexican tostada filled up with pork and beans and, oh so much tasty stuff.
We walked home via Shepherd's Bush, where I finally got my hair all chopped off and the Italian market was set up. We bought a big box of unusual Italian treats which we devoured before we could think of taking pictures of them.
Today we went out for a walk from St Pauls to Borough, only to find the market is closed on a Sunday. Not that it mattered, as we just walked over the river again to Spitalfields market and treated ourselves to some Patisserie Valerie. That place has some serious quality for a chain bakery store. Here's some pictures of the day:
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