Joi Buffet, the British Museum and Eurovision

Posted on 2007/05/15 14:27:01 (May 2007).

[Saturday 12th May]
Today was a really good day actually. In preparation for Eurovision, I had originally planned to finally go out and buy some form of television. However, before actually heading out to the shops I had a quick check on the web and found it was going to be streamed online as well, so I decided to put off buying the telly again.

We did head out into the centre of London anyway, as I rather fancied going to visit one of these Chinese vegetarian buffet places I had heard about. There seem to be several of these in London in a small chain, and today we visited "Joi Buffet" on Percy Street, just off Tottenham Court Road. The food was absolutely fantastic - and rediculously cheap (all you can eat for a fiver) - with plenty of variety. I shall definitely be going again.

Following this Chie and I had a vague meander around the general area. It turns out there are actually a couple of nice little streets just off the not-so-nice Tottenham Court Road. As it was starting to rain, we decided to pop into a little coffee shop for a while, and sitting there with a nice warm coffee, watching the rain through the window, was really quite luxurious.

When it looked like the weather had improved a bit we ventured out, but it was still pretty cold and damp. So I suggested we go and have a little mosey around the British Museum. We took a good look through the Japanese exhibition, as well as a few other bits and pieces, including that room downstairs which is done out like the library of a stately home (apparently Chie's favourite). It's great to have this sort of thing in London to occupy rainy days with.

Eventually we did make our way back home, in good time for a night of Eurovision fun. Well, I enjoyed it, Chie didn't seem hugely interested. The quality of the web streaming version really wasn't that great, but with the exception of some slight difficulties at the start it did basically work for the whole event, and we could definitely hear what was going on - even though at times we had to make an educated guess at what was actually on the screen. It's not quite the same without the Terry Wogan commentary, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

It's a real shame the Ukraine song didn't win - I thought they'd achieved the perfect balance of Eurovision madness. As has been much discussed elsewhere I found the winning Serbian entry a bit on the bland side by comparison, but there you go.

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