We planned to catch the bus up to Brooklyn to check out a new (to us) cinema, The Penthouse, to watch the Girl Who Played With Fire. Unfortunately, due to inattentiveness on our part, we went to the wrong place to catch the bus, and missed it. With buses only running every half hour on a Sunday, and as it wasn’t raining, we decided we could walk it. Of course, it started raining as we were halfway up the hill. Oh well. We were exploring an area of Wellington we hadn’t been to before, including Central Park , which seems to my untrained eye to meet only one of the criteria for being so named. The cinema has a café attached, and we had lunch there, slightly later than planned due to our half hour walk. It also looked like we’d got there just in the nick of time, for no sooner had we sat down than a queue began to form and suddenly tables were at a premium! After the film we managed to catch the bus back into town (sorry no photos).
Oh, man, I wann-ed to see a phodo of the bus.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to tell us how the film was. Good ? Like the book ? Completely different story about potato growing in Idaho ?
And what did you have for lunch ?
You're so cryptic these days.
It's August Bank Holiday here. Remember that? The sun he shines but the wind he blows. Whooosh. Thar goes ma hat.
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pfft - you're no good, how can I publicise my collection of photos of international public transport upholstry if you won't take photos?
ReplyDeleteHow was the film? Is that the first of the trilogy? I only read the first book, then watched a small portion of the first film but found it all too disturbing for me and gave up, but my other half found them riveting.
I've read all three books, and we went to see the first film (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) here a few weeks ago. They stick fairly close to the book, but simplify it a bit - some of the sub-plots get knocked out completely, which is just as well really or the film would be 5 hours long (cf. Harry Potter). The films aren't brilliant, but they're competently made - realistic rather than Hollywood, so the characters are ugly and middle-aged, and there aren't many helicopter chase gun-battles with CGI. OK, none. It'll be interesting to compare the Hollywood remake.
ReplyDeleteWill try harder to take photos of bus seats next time, Sho.