Well a great night out at the Wales Millennium Centre at Cardiff and one of the longest non Wagnerian operas in the repertoire which strangely was in just two parts despite the fact that they sent out a newsletter days before to ensure you got the best out of your evening and promised two intervals and a longer running time. I think things changed after the dress rehearsal, it over ran terribly so got pruned, the bum got a bit sore after a couple of hours at a time but it is a tremendous effort putting on productions like this. The fact that they could use the great Soviet film of Way & Peace gave them a boost to the necessarily large but not enormous cast. The interval ice cream was very good quality and the food in their restaurant pre performance was top class and great service. Signage in the theatre was a bit sparse for the toilets, I got lost trying to get back to Mandy. We walked/chaired from the hotel to theatre, the hotel was also good, no complaints at all from room, sleep quality, breakfast all spot on. A long time since I've a big breakfast although I did have some fruit as well as sausages, beans, hash browns etc. We came home via Worcestershire which was the way we normally come back if in Newport or Cardiff and this took us to the NT house Croome Court which also houses a small RAF museum to the once secret establishment there which experimented with the practical applications of radar in and after the war and Mandy's mother Berta was Prof Lovell's secretary in the war and after. He was regularly down at the airfield and we wonder if she traveled down there with him. She was drafted into the civil service from her work in the cinema industry where she was with Paramount distribution, if she liked a film they binned it, if she though it trash it went on general release, that was her style and taste for you. We met some lovely people at the property and had a good lunch in the cafe before continuing back up the M5/M42/M6toll etc to home and enjoyed good weather when we were out and about although it rained on the up but we remained dry and it was quite warm. I'm editing the last 6 films for Crick and Wales and hope to have everything edited, covers made, shop listed tomorrow and then upload the 'download' DVDs on our shop ( this site) . Remember just £8 a film for a download rather than £13 for a DVD. A great business model for our dotage! Well here are some shots from Wales starting at Swansea on Friday morning at the bus station. Comments are closed.
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