今日はロンドンでオフ。オフといってもやる事がたくさんあります。先ずはコーヒーとクッキーを食べて、昼過ぎからメンバー3人でグッズの仕分け。

It was a day off in London but I have many things to do. I had coffee and cookies for breakfast and we sorted out our Rock’n’roll T-Shirts.

途中、あつこが肩が痛いためマッサージに行き、その間、グッズの足らない分をカウント。あつこが戻り、おにぎり食べてから、近隣を軽くお散歩。

Atsuko went for massage because of her shoulder ache. I did stock taking during she was out. After she came back and ate a rice ball, we took a walk around there.

熟成肉?!

Maturational beef?!

向かいにここのステーキ店が。元々教会やったんちゃうんかな？

Steak house of this meat shop on the other side. It must be an old church.

こんな所を通って、

Walking through these streets,

桜が咲いています。

Cherry trees are flowering.

そして目的地はここ！この近辺、Muswell Hill出身のKinksが初めてライブをしたと言うパブClissold Arms。中に入って見たかったけど、貸切パーティー中でした。当時からはオーナーが変わって、違う雰囲気になってるらしいけど。

The destination is here! Clissold Arms where the Kinks from these area Muswell Hill played the first gig. We wanted to enter but closed for a party. The owner was changed and I heard that the atmosphere has changed, though.

そして一旦ホテルに帰り、ブログを書いて晩御飯はメンバー3人で近隣の韓国系日本料理店へ。

I went back to the hotel and wrote blogs. After that, three of us went to a Korean-Japanese restaurant.

3人ともチキンカツカレーを注文。盛りがよろしくて完食できなかった。カツは完食。あつこと日本酒を少し分け分けしました。

カレーにお味噌汁付いてるのは、松屋と一緒やけど、カレーと一緒じゃなくて最初に配膳して、スプーンで飲むようになっているのは違うね。

All three of us ordered Chicken-Katsu Curry. The portion was so big and I couldn’t eat everything. I ate all of cut let, though. Atsuko and I shared Sake.

At regular curry restaurants in Japan don’t service miso soup with curry but at a popular cheap Japanese restaurant Matsuya serves it. We never have miso soup served first. It’s always with main dish and don’t use spoon but chop sticks for miso soup.

お箸置きが卓球のラケットみたいやった。何だかかわいい。

Chopsticks stand looked like a ping pong racket. Cute!

道すがら買ったメレンゲをかじって歯磨きしてお休みなさい。

I had a piece of melange which I bought on the way. I brush my teeth and went to bed.