Hostel adventure went OK again! Not as well as last time in parts, but more interesting in others. Commuted to work as normal in the the morning, all much the same. Kept the expenses down, no surprise coffee this time. Had a pasty for lunch that I brought from home.
After work to the NEW hostel. Well, a different hostel, to Clink261 on Grays Inn Road. This is more like what I expected from the hostel, a bit more hostelish, a bit less fun than the last one. It's a lot smaller, and it might be fun in its own way but I did not see this. I was on the third floor, the top floor, in a room with eight beds. There was one person in the room when I got there. I just dropped off what I could so I wasn't burdened with things for my theatre trip. Also knew I can't even take a bottle of water into the Leicester Square Theatre. BUT I forgot to fill up my water bottle on leaving work anyway. So left my pillow case and empty water bottle at the hostel, and walked to Leicester Square.
Still had my tote bag, slightly less in it, hardly worth bringing it at all; toothbrush and toothpaste, battery pack charger. Didn't even have my pen torch 1, today.
No time for food before the theatre. Had to be in at half six for a seven o'clock start... but only really had to be in so they could send you to the bar first. I was not drinking.
Good seat, the venue was only half full max though. Have been to these Richard Herring podcast shows before and they've been full. I have listened to A LOT of them, if not all of them. The only guest this week was Peter Serafinawicz, who I think of as being "from Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead", but he's been in a hell of a lot, including The Simpsons, Rick And Morty, South Park, Parks And Recreation, John Wick, and recently The Gentlemen. I thought he was putting on that scouse accent in that, but no, he was just exaggerating it. He speaks half american half scouse now.
Normally at these shows there's an interval and then a second guest comes on, and Richard says "you're much better than last week's audience" and we go into the recording of a second podcast. This time the guest was Peter Serafinawicz back again. Richard said there had been a mix up.
Back to hostel about ten-ish, via loads of places looking for food. I walked through Leicester Square itself, well just the edge of it, and then through Chinatown too. I had not eaten, but didn't find anything that suited. Wanted something chip-ish, without sitting down, but all the kebab shops didn't look right. I didn't fancy a big name one either, I wanted an old style chip shop, pie and chips. No joy. I got a samosa in the end from Co-op, and a can of fizzy drink, and then some water to take back to the hostel. I was going to say "back to my room", but it wasn't really my room.
There were two people up and chatting in the room, and all the lights were on. I tried to just go to sleep, and so they said "shall I turn the main lights off?". Yes please! Then I slept fitfully, then other people came back to the room, then some bastard snored loudly all night. I left the hostel again about half six and headed into work.
Again I saved £80ish by not getting train tickets, then spent £20 on hostel, £20 on theatre comedy, £5-ish on samosa, water, and another drink. Certainly this comedy should be out of another budget.
| Commuting | Staying over |
|---|---|
| 80 quid train fare | 20 quid hostel |
| 19 quid theatre | |
| 2 quid samosa | |
| 2 quid water | |
| 1 quid drink | |
| See the family | Generate blog content |
| Sleep better | Don't have to put the bins out |
| ------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------- |
| 80 quid down | 44 quid down |
Cheaper again this week, would have been cheaper still if I'd remembered the water from work and remembered to take a drink from work. I'm not getting much interesting content out of this am I? It's probably better than having "and then I got stabbed" though.
Still not got the carabiner for the ultimate washbag plan, but going to Canterbury this weekend so might look there. Too much choice online.
Only slightly updated packing list (based on my big packing list) for next time. More things already at work in the locker now:
Latest packing list version will always be here, but I will paste updates over time.
I need to get a stack of earplugs and leave them at work.
40Kph winds and light rain showers, 11 - 13℃.
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