Posts Tagged ‘Somerset house’
T’is the season to be skating @ the Somerset House: Breakfast with Tiffany
December brings an amazing collection of ice rinks. What a choice! Will you go to the London Eye for the view, to theNational History Museum before strolling through the Albertopolis, to the Tower of London for the historical touch, at Hampton Court for the fab background, at Westfield in between two shopping sprees, at Winter Wonderland surrounded by colourful rides, or amidst the towers of Canary Wharf?
We joined the early session at the Somerset House: Breakfast with Tiffany. At 08.45 to 09.45, we were still half asleep but it is quite lovely to enjoy the ice with a handful of skaters only… The staff is adorable and will rush to help if like me you had quite forgotten how bad you are at that sport! No noise from the outside world, just laughs and music - just like in a dream.
Kids can train on a separate space, weighed down by a fun penguin. You will see a few parents borrowing those, but it is only to hum, show the children how it works, of course.
The session costs £18.50 and includes entry for an adult and a child, a hot chocolate, a cupcake, and ô joy, a glass of champagne… all served in the joined café with a view on the rink. See, thwe crowd are coming in now, gosh, what a traffic! At least, you are having a bubbly time…
Don’t forget to stop at the Tiffany boutique, all wrapped in elegance… for a few jewels but also more affordable treats including chocolate lollipops.
You will not resist a glimpse inside the presents on the side - a window allows you to spy on a poetic scene, surrounded by mirrors reflecting the watchers…
Put on you skating gear, there is another session next Saturday. Alternatively, try one of their DJ nights!
Breakfast with Tiffany
Next session: Dec 18, 2010
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 1LA
At the moment @ the Somerset House, René Gruau’s illustrations for Dior…
Post-it for the week-end Dec 10-12, 2010
Xmas tree? Check. Cards, wrapping, ribbons? Check or postponed to the very last minute. Party time? Let’s go!
- There’s a touch of magic @ Kew Gardens…
- Visit a historical house decorated for Xmas…
- Play hide and seek @ the Pyrus Art Gallery…
- Xmas afternoon tea, anyone? Or maybe one with a zest of madness?
- Street art stuck behind bars…
- Hop, another Xmas fair, very much into design, that one… and another one there…
- Even the Somerset House has its own…
- In search of vintage gifts? Try this pop-up shop…
- Choccie time on Southbank!
- (Or cookie time for guys – cool gift!)
- Hate December? Have a reindeer pie.
- Grab a coffee and listen to carols under the Trafalgar Norvegian Xmas tree…
- Be generous…
Post-it for the week-end Nov 26-28, 2010
Night falling from 16.00 onwards… First frosts and there are talks of snow… Say no to the winter blues and put fireworks in your life!
- Did you know it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow? We may not be in the US, any reason is good to party! Have a look here and there for ideas…
- It’s also party time in Seven Dials – get 20% off your shopping!
- Don’t forget the V&A late opening on Friday – free workshops to create your xmas presents and a DJ…
- Wander on a rooftop terrasse with a gorgeous view on St Paul. Free public access!
- The adorable Chelsea Physics Garden opens its doors for a sweet Xmas market - we found so many ideas last year to fill our Xmas stockings!
- Feel like ice-skating? Try an early session @ the Somerset House: for £18.50, and adult and a child can skate for an hour then have a hot chocolate, a glass of champagne and a cupcake. Or try a historical background such as Hampton Court or the Tower…
- Fall for nougat and chesnuts @ the Paddington Xmas Market…
- Escape with these beautiful landscapes…
- But what can girls pack in their handbags? The answer is at Selfridge’s…
- Want a brand new collection of clothes without spending a penny? Learn to swish!
- Be a child again with those illustrations…
- Step in artists’ studios…
- The road is yours! On Saturday, both Oxford and Regent St will be closed to traffic for a better shopping experience. Plus music and entertainement!
- Looking for an original gift? Why not an artwork in this pop-up shop? They even have a landscape made of neons…
- Rediscover Camden…
- Last but not leat… a cocktail served with a chocolate truffle… Cheers!
Post-it for the week-end Nov 12-14, 2010
Take a pinch of art shows, add a zest of events, a dose of parties and mix: here you go, a happy week-end on the rocks! (the weather will take care of the icy part)
- On Thursday, come and admire the Xmas lights at Covent Garden. Do bring a lover: a kiss under the mistletoe will switch on the 50,000 red and white lights of the giant Xmas tree… On Saturday, kids will get a chance to pet real reindeers.
- Panicking about the ton of Xmas shopping to do? Rush to the Country Living Xmas Fair and fill your Santa sack…
- And all that jazz…
- Where’s Charlie? @ Selfridge’s on Saturday!
- The Lord Mayor’s show is something to be seen once at least in you London life. The parade counts 6000 participants, 200 vehicle, 21 carriages… This year, Hong-Kong acrobats will jump along African warriors and hip-hop dancers. And at 17.00, tadam, fireworks on the Thames!
- Celebrities have a garage sale @ Selfridge’s…
- This way for a vintage fair…
- Come and learn to dance! We love the fact that profits will go to a charity. And you will get to try latin dances, salsa, tano and even… belly dancing!
- Love fashion? Don’t miss the Dior perfumes illustrations by Rene Gruau: Japanese inspired, funny and so glamour.
- Swoon and Know Hope are your favourites? Run to the Black Press Project!
- Forget the Joconde. Come and see more of Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings.
- Shopping @ Westfield? Relax and keep cool on their ice rink!
What did we forget? Share your tips!
Post-it for the week-end Oct 15-17, 2010
What a strange week, which celebrates chocolate, cocktails and… wool! So, what’s on this week-end?
- Play the arty card. I have tried quite a few opening this week! The Shadow Catchers @ the V&A on photograms - some really great works there. Barbican presents Japanese fashion (and don’t forget their late evening!). You’ll find more fashion @ the Somerset House… Do your gym @ the Hayward with Move! Balance, rings, hula-hoop… Very interactive and playful. If you’re into something more classic, try Canaletto - great paintings of the Venice scene.
- On the street art line, try and get one of the last spaces for Hell’s Half Acre. Right in the Waterloo tunnels and extraordinarily good. The best show I have seen for a while! You will also find Eine and Polly Morgan @ the Moniker Art Fair that opens tomorrow…
- Get ready for Halloween with this themed afternoon tea… (or get yourself this book on monstruously cute cupcakes!)
- Have a free gin and tonic in a Victorian carriage of curiosities. And on the 16th, there is a croquet competition for barmen!
- Alternatively, say cheers in the pop-up Courvoisier…
- Or do you prefer wine? You can also try the Real Food Market…
- Taste some (free) chocolate @ Harrods! Or even better, have a chocolate orgy @ Chocolate Unwrapped…
- Be zen in the British Museum…
- Hop, go and see art in a park for once with the Frieze Art Fair…
- Have a pint in a fab pub…
- Lost your jacket? It may be here….
- Take the kids to cut and pastes paper templates…
- Contribute to this strange harvest @ the Wellcome Collection…
- Sci-fi fans, head that way!
- Go, on, have a very French dinner… you know it is soooo worth it…
- And last, order yourself the cutest cupcake in a jar. Just out of curiousity…
Post-it for the week-end: July 30 – August 01, 2010
Oh well, I have tried and tried but my thoughts keeps strolling from my work files but they do keep straying towards the week-end…
- Fancy a free haircut on Friday? Check this way…
- The Natural History Museum will stay open late. Jazz? Glass of wine on the Darwin center terrasse? Night walk in the wildlife garden?
- Party @ the V&A Summer Camp. Bombay Sapphire will have a design cardboard bar with stylised cardboard glasses (but real cocktails). A great way to enjoy their late evening.
- You can even go on to the Serpentine pavillion and sleepover… Midnight feast, films and even breakfast in the morning…
- I really must try to find a free Saturday morning and do this guided tour of the Somerset House!
- The extraordinary Chilly Gonzales will be @ the field day on Saturday…
- Latin fever @ the Carnaval del pueblo!
- Even more music with the Croydon festival…
- A classic, but have you done it yet? Buckingham Palace is open for the summer….
- Have a spooky evening…
- Saturday, head for Brick Lane: free cocktails, demo of Urban Art and even a tattoo session! You might also decide to stay around and go bowling in this fab diner… Perfect for Sunday’s festival: bowling but British, music and dancing!
- It’s open air cinema season! A whole programme @ the Somerset House… Act crazy for Mamma Mia and choose funky colours… The Wapping Project proposes a barbecue with your movie…
- You already knew routemasters could ne recycled as veggie restaurants (the root-master is my favourite). Well, one of those goes around, proposing German food!
- Oooooh, as soon as I’m on holiday, I am going to book myself one of those fab afternoon teas… Now, chocolate or pink? (vegan and gluten free versions are proposed)
-What about the kids? Little ones will love the teddies picnic @ Covent Garden on Saturday… Teenagers will much prefer to go to the underage festival!
Pssst, heads up for next week! There will be a maze @ Trafalgar (with dragons and Chinese cooking on Tuesday). And Selfridge’s is to open their Xmas shop too…
Hey, anyone has a great address for a roof terrasse for cocktails?
Post-it for the week-end (Jan 29-31 2010)
First – get yourself in the mood with the V&A Renaissance ball on Friday night…
- Try one of Babylone’s Friday night concerts – the restaurant is famous for its roof gardens (if you go there by daylight, look out for the pink flamingos who live there. Yep, real ones. )
- More of a dancing queen? Go to the Abbaworld exhibition! Or @ Proud Camden for spendid pics of rock’n'roll animals, Elvis or Blondie.
Or make it an arty week-end:
- Use your imagination at Visible Invisible…
- Marvel @ ingeniosity @ 1001 inventions….
- Add a pinch of exotism…
- and a little rainbow at the Tate…
Nostalgic? try the photo exhibition @ Kenwood house instead, on lost London. Or dream of other lands with these projections of the Arctic on the Hayward Gallery external walls…
You can also participate to this strange project to recycle works of art…
Much prefer a quiet week-end with the kids? Try the free workshop sessions @ the Somerset house or take them for a bit of Dr Seuss rhyming! Even better? Go and find some dinosaurs…
You’ll find me @ the Saacthi for their new Indian exhibition (and possibly getting some cornbread mix from the nearby Partridges and there’s a Saturday morning market there too) and at Jen’s cafe for a bubble tea.
What about your best plans for the week-end?
Post-it for the week-end (Nov 20-22)
A hot chocolate, a new scarf and gloves, and here you go. Plenty to see this week-end to get into the Xmas spirit. Not that you can really escape it!
- Start on Southbank – either with the Slowfood market (jazz themed this time) or the Cologne Xmas market…
- Oxford street launches its market this week as well…
- Want more? Head to Hyde Park for a walk and a big wheel ride with the Winterwonderland…
- Stop @ Covent Garden for the Lacoste experience or simply for the kids to enjoy candlelit stories…
- Head to Victoria station or Westfield to see the Cirque du soleil (and hopefully win free tickets!)…
- See another dimension in Trafalgar square with the ghost forest…
- Take the kids to the London children film festival…
- Want to make them gasp in wonder? Have a walk with them in the Enchanted forest @ Syon Park. Thousands of lights in the trees. £5 per adult, £2 per kids – quite cheap for the thrill…
- Skate at the Somerset House. Have alook at the program: Breakfast @ tiffany’s matinees and DJ evenings!
Post-it note for the week-end (Oct 17-18)
Since temperatures and leaves alike are falling dramatically, I’ll give up cocktail on the terasse (though it’s the last chance to enjoy the Dusk Bar).
And it sounds like the perfect week-end for it!
- First, put some colours back into our life and ead for Ruscha’s show @ the Hayward. Pop, surrealist, firework like.
- Not to be missed: Damien Hirst @ the Wallace Collection. He finally gave up chain produced circles and got back to his brushes and paintubes. Vibrant works.
- Feel nostalgic with the new 6oies show (Beatles to Bowie) @ the National Portrait Gallery.
- Learn how transport sculpted the suburbs identity at theTransport Museum. The exhibitions should be funny and family-friendly…
- Start Xmas shopping with the Craft fair @ the Somerset House.
- Or forget this commercial world @ the Free Art Fair @ Barbican (you may even win a work of art on Sunday!)
- Enjoy to a poetry marathon @ the Serpentine Gallery (especially as the summer pavillion will be demolished Sunday)
- If the weather really is bad, head for the BFI London film festival!
Post-it for the week-end (Oct 10-11)
Get your umbrellas out this week-end to go and see…
- The new street art by Mutate Britain near Portobello Rd
- Discover the favourites for the Turner prize @ the Tate (including Roger Hiorns who likes to see life in blue)
- Shop fort art @ the Somerset House craft fair…
- take the kids to Saddlers’ Wells family week-end – an excellent dance show with workshops where 5+ can experiment with dance and shapes… There’s even one for toddlers!
- Dream of exotic India with the Maharaja exhibition @ the V&A..
- Rethink your house with the eco home exhibition at the Geffrye Museum…
- Be very brave and try a nudist flashmob on a London rooftop…
- Or simply, join me in my winter blues fight. I’m having an oriental afternoon tea @ Yauatcha – how could I resist grean tea and coconut scones?
