Saturday, November 26, 2016

London - Power Outage in Piccadilly Square

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-power-cut-black-friday-soho-piccadilly-circus-electric-uk-capital-west-end-a7439896.html

When we were in London over Thanksgiving 2016, we came out of the tube (subway), walked up the street towards a pub we had looked up online in the Piccadilly Circus area of town, which is normally extremely bright like Times Square in NYC, but as we walked down a street we noticed that the entire side of street had no lights or electricity.

We went into the pub anyway, hoping the power would come back on soon, but it didn't. There were plenty of people just eating and drinking by candlelight at that point, didn't seem to mind at all. We moved on down the street and found somewhere else to eat.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Going to New York City for work!

Drove the 98 Camry into the heart of downtown NYC on Sunday evening. 

Stayed at Residence Inn Midtown/East on East 48th St and Lexington. Paid $50/night for parking. 

Worked at 350 Park Ave. 

Went to be in the audience on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on January 12, 2016. Greg Gutfield was the guest, he was weird. 

Restaurants
 - Bukhara Grill - Indian buffet
 - Peak Thai
 - Uncle Paul's Pizza - just north of Grand Central station
 - Bill's Bar and Burger - great milkshake