Enjoy the film!/+ Confirming details/ideas for killing time

[Neil Ward]

David:

> Hope you have a good time, all moviegoers.
>
> I'll see you sometime, I'm sure.

I hope so!  I expect the next big meeting after this film will be the one
where we "find out what David looks like".

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Just confirming details for tomorrow now.  My mobile number is 07957 423
185.

I have tickets for Mike and Dai for the 13.30 showing and for Mike and Nick
for the 20.35 showing.  I've already given Al, Catherine and Michelle their
tickets and Michelle has a ticket for Simon for the afternoon (?) showing.

The plan is to meet up outside the Odeon, Leicester Square at noon for the
first showing.  For the later showing, we said we'd meet at 19.30 outside
the cinema.

Between showings, we have three to four hours to kill...

Immediately after the first showing, we could go to the National Portrait
Gallery, just round the corner, which is open until 18.00
(http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp) or the National Gallery, also open
until 18.00 (http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/default.htm) if
anyone's up for that.  Another possibility - although it's a fair walk from
the cinema - is to visit Australia House
(http://www.australia.org.uk/ahc/html/building.html) at the far end of The
Strand, since part of the Exhibition Hall doubled as Gringotts in the film.
I'm not sure whether we'd be able to get in, but I'll try to find out.

Covent Garden will be fairly busy with shoppers, but it's fairly close to
Leicester Square, if we wanted to wander around for a bit and see some
street performers (or visit the Transport Museum).  We could look at some of
the bookshops in Charing Cross Rd (close to Diagon Alley, we think) and get
a coffee at the same time.  Essentially, we'll be right in the middle of the
West End, so we can shop or hang out where we like, as a group, or not.

Mike (and others) might be interested in visiting St Martins-in-the-fields
church, right on Trafalgar Square.

I suggest that we grab something to eat at about 18.00 to beat the crush.
I don't know what individual tastes are like, but we could try Wagamama
(Japanese), just off Leicester Square
(http://www.wagamama.com/wayto/index.php) or one of the many Chinese
restaurants in nearby China Town.  I also know a couple of really cheap
places in Soho that might not be so busy around 6pm : The Stockpot and
Centrale - they don't sell alcohol and we'd have to cram onto cramped tables
with strangers, but the food is filling and very inexpensive.

If we want to hang out in a pub, we could try the modern place we went to
last Saturday (The Piano and Pitcher was it?), or The Glassblower, just off
Regent St, which is very nice, and more traditional.  After 5pm these places
will be full of suits, but earlier we'd easily get a table to ourselves, I
think.

I'll bring these ideas with me, as some of you won't be able to read this.

Neil