Wednesday 28 May 2008

Geoff's Birthday in London

Shortly after we arrived back from France, we celebrated Geoff’s birthday here in London. Mike organised the night out which begun with a night viewing of a design exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) called China Design Now. The exhibition highlighted the emerging design industry and culture in the cities of Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai.


Afterwards we popped around the corner to Thai Square for Geoff’s birthday dinner.



The following day, Geoff and I spent the day out and about in London. Actually we went back to the V&A as we hadn’t had time to see a smaller exhibition there called Mapping the Imagination, which exhibited a wide range of visual maps, from practical to expressive, and of all different interpretations.

We had lunch at the V&A food hall, a is a lovely space, but really confusing to navigate and then hopped over the Harrods to the Morelli’s Gelato Bar, a place Geoff has been eyeing since he first arrived in London, for their huge, luscious gelato sundaes! We found a seat at the bar and indulged in a chocolate and hazelnut gelato sundae all afternoon. We left Harrods feeling quite sick from all the sugary treats and vowing never to look at chocolate again (well, OK, until tomorrow!).