4- Wedsesday, February 20. 1985 - North Shore News

Brita

inding my way out of the maze at Heathrow

Airport, | stepped oul into a grim, grey

world. tt was the coldest winter since 1962,
| the year [ happened to live in London. Talk about
eo twisted karma!

[ had returned to my old | a man?
stomping ground to do some ft owas Samuel Johnsen
research on a book, and who said “when you have
maybe visit a few favorite tired of London, vou have
pubs. Maybe? Well, gee. Aim tired of life." And that was a

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long time ago, before Lon-
don had become half the city
it is today.

Forget those news reports
of dispirited Brits trudging in
and out of the Tubes, cursing

by Bob Hunter

the LEC, Maggie Thatcher,
the unemployment rate. the
coal miners and ube shell-
shocked) pound. Britain
seems more vital, more lively

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TERRY SHAW, principal, and Seycove schoul students Lee Anne Reed and Jill
Krizovensky will be donuting their time and services to Action auction Friday aight.
Shaw is one of five pipers who wili attend any function for the highest bidder. Viewing

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and self-confident that | have
seen her in decades,

This is a completely selfish
thing to sity, of course, but
one of the really nice sur-
Prises uhoul Britain at the
moment is the fact that the
pound note is dawn just
about par with the American
dollar, which gives you
roughly 75 Canadian cents to
the quid.

Prior to this development,
{ would have had to say that
France was the best travel bet
in Europe, thanks to the
weakness of ihe frane. But
now, well, my wife and |
could go to an excellent
restaurant, take another cou-
ple along, eat, drink and be
exceedingly merry, and the
whole rab only amounted to
something like $35 Canadian.

Also, since we bought one

ran

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of those Air Canada Touram
packages, the ticket itselt on-
ly cose $778, and for a mere
SU] extra, we got six nights at
a hotel opposite Russell
Square, ground transporta-
tion to and from Heathrow,
and 20 quid vach worth of
theatre Gckets. Anyway you
cut it, that adds up; to an
awsome bargain.

We were told that you
can't possibly buy tickeis for
Cats, the theatrical product
rated the best show on earth
for over a year now, unless
you book three months in ad-
vance. Be that as it may, we
wandered down to the book-
ing office at the Strand just
before noon one day and as
luck or karma would have it,
Iwo H had just been
cancelled. Front row, just off
from centre!

n - what a bargain

We scooped them up, of
course, And what can [ say
about Cats? It was the best
stage presentation [ve ‘seen
since Hair, No, actually, it
was a lot better, even if it
didn't have any great social
eonterxt. Ul was so. ex-
hilarating we left with our
own hair practically standing
on end from the sheer buzz of
excitement,

The pubs, as ever, warm
the soul in a way that drink-
ing establishments elsewhere
in the universe never quite
do. Bangers and a pinta, luv!
Once, when | was having
trouble making up my mind
what draught to order, 1 told
the barmaid: ‘‘Don’: mind
me, I’m from the colonies.”’

Said she, totally deadpan:
“Oh? What one?""

England! I love it!

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