Wisetrips Travel Blog

The West End transfer of this farce is a play within a play and a study in chaos.  The show is a farcical play-within-a-play. Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society is producing a hoary old sub-‘Mousetrap’ mystery called ‘The Murder at Haversham Manor.’ From the first moment, in which a hapless stage manager attempts to secure a collapsing mantelpiece, we suspect things will not go as planned. And that, indee…

After getting up at around 7:30 a.m., I showered and dressed while Alex and Inna rested. They were exhausted from the month-long vacation in Austria and Germany. We decided to have breakfast at the Premier Inn to save money and time. I selected a "Continental Breakfast," while Inna and Alex chose the full hot breakfast. Since Alex was still a teenager, his br…

First, the red curtain rises just a foot off the stage. And it artfully reveals the star attraction of this mind-blowingly lavish revival of a classic Broadway musical: 40-odd pairs of tap-dancing feet, hammering the boards in perfect unison. Helmed by Broadway director Mark Bramble, 42nd Street  is as American as a McDonald's apple pie, a steaming, golden spectacle of showbiz glamour. Fittingly…

After getting up around 7:00 a.m., I showered, shaved, and dressed. We decided to have breakfast at the Premier Inn (to avoid wasting a lot of time). I selected a "Continental Breakfast," while Inna and Alex chose the full hot breakfast. I mainly ate cold cereal and a few pastries with coffee, while Alex and Inna ate some scrambled eggs. The W…

We returned to our Art Hotel in Munich after finishing the BMW Museum tour at around 13:15. We quickly found the hotel, but could not get parking – because we did not pre-book it! We found another garage nearby and dropped off our car there, but it was time-consuming and complicated. After we checked into the hotel, we parked our car. At first, we …