So on Friday I made my way to Aldgate and booked into the Dorsett Hotel. Very nice hotel and extremely well appointed. Right next door to Aldgate station and that means about 200 metres from East Aldgate station! Means you can take 4 lines to get there!
So after booking in I made my way to Dominion Theatre where caught up with Fi and Leah after work. We had booked into the Bat out of Hell show and after meeting up made our way in.
Ok I had to do it!
The show had the worst storyline linking the songs together about some apocalyptic future and there were also plenty of new songs to help with the linking. If you ignored the storyline, the music was wonderful and all the old favourites were done masterfully.
The main singers (about 7) all had great voices and the production was explosive ( I mean stuff blew up). In any case I enjoyed and the girls are still thinking about it!
Afterwards we had a couple of drinks then Leah went her ways and we returned to our hotel where we went to the ground floor bar for a couple more.
Slept in then with a glorious Saturday ahead, Fi and I wandered off to explore. Found a great cafe for brunch then off to Old Spitafield Markets where Fi was in heaven. Really good markets with interesting stuff. Loaded up we made our way to Brick Lane Markets for more retail therapy and I managed to get a couple of new shirts.
Made our way back to hotel area and went down road where we found ourselves at the Tower which is only about 400 yards away! It was time for refreshments so we had a couple at the Minories Pub which is a lovely set up.
Back up to our Hotel and went to the rooftop bar on the premises.
View from roof looking South with Tower Bridge
Big day and many kilometres travelled we had a scrub up then decided on chinese as Fi had a craving for dumplings. Looked around but settled on the chinese on the first floor of the Hotel. Sikumen was great and perhaps some of the finest chinese we have ever had.
Went the banquet for 2. Seafood dumplings were superb although sadly I only got one of the 8! Made up with it though with the crispy duck pancakes which was also superb, then we had a beef in wine dish, where the beef literally melted in mouth and vegetable dishes followed by a sweet and sour chicken!
Cocktails and dumplings
Great service, fantastic food and for London very well priced at only £30.00 pounds a head! Would recommend.
Fully sated and happy we made our way back up to rooftop to see the view at night then finally to bed at a fairly late time.
Up on Sunday more exploring was in store so we found another market, this time the Petticoat Lane markets, which were sadly dissapointing with lots of trashy stores.
Continuing on our way we wandered down to the Barbican and then onto London museum to see the old London exhibitions.
London Roman Wall
After a couple of hours there it was back up to hotel to get our bags and finally make our way slowly back to Greenwich with mandatory rest stops along way. Caught up with Leann at Daveys for a debrief of weekend, then home for dinner.
Our East End weekend was a great success and now girls are at work and I am doing the admin chores after a full weekend.
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