OK, it's a year and a bit since I kicked off this game and frankly I'm a bit rusty. I forgot to shoot the street sign so here's a placeholder til I get back there later this week. It comes courtesy of Sam Holmes who seems to have been on a Monopoly pub crawl when he took it, so clearly a kindred spirit.
So we surfaced at Leicester Square (£260), walked along the North side of the newly revamped square, along today's street - Coventry Street is very much an in-between street, no-one ever really refers to it in its own right outside of Monopoly contexts - and took a left down Lower Regent Street to check out our destination: the Apollo Regent Street cinema, for a viewing of Skyfall for BAFTA. Finding ourselves with a bit of time on our hands before kick-off we headed down Jermyn Street, up the alley to Piccadilly for that aforementioned hot chocolate. So that's all the yellows in one go but it was at Coventry Street I was reminded of this game so that's where this entry falls. A quick glance in Hatchards (est. 1797 so the oldest bookshop in London), picked up some sweeties before the show, then back to the cinema where we finished all the sweets before the Columbia Pictures logo in time honoured fashion. Enjoyed the movie even better second time round (first viewing was at the Savoy in Dublin with the Enfants Terribles, the last big screen in O'Connell Street). After the screening in came no lesser villain than Xavier Bardem. In the ensuing Q&A Finn asked him a good solid question: How did you do that thing when you take out your teeth and your face collapses? After politely warning him to brush his teeth regularly, the charming Spaniard explained the process of the special effect. He also apologised for swearing before noticing the presence of a junior member in the audience. Very charming and sympathetic. So our Coventry Street adventure was suitably thespian.
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