eastward ho!
Though the sun was acting a bit selfish, we spent a lovely Sunday at the East End. First destination was the Faces in the Crowd exhibition at Whitechapel. I liked the much traditional form of presentation--paintings (esp. the black and red picture of a theatre scenery)--but the videos on the first floor didn't really appeal to me. My colleague SR uses the word 'aggressive' to describe this floor, to which I find rather acute. Turning a left, we found ourselves on Brick Lane, usually filled with aggressive waiters wanting you to come into their restaurants. Not in the mood for rich Indian curry, we walked through bike shops (stolen ones!), old junk, vintage clothing stores, organic food restaurants, motorbike shop, and ended up standing behind a long queue for cheap, yummy bagels and cakes. Jewish-owned Beigel Bakery was introduced to me by S, for she is one person with an enormous sweet tooth. Afterwards, we headed back to Spitalfields Market to meet up with Big S. None of us would know that hours later we would watch a wretched Chelsea being defeated by Newcastle Utd. in heavy snow.
Evil Queen
Frog Prince
Jesters