Ages ago when I was booking tickets for my sister's 'birthday treat' visit to London I tried and failed to get tickets for David Bowie at the V&A. It's been sold out for its entire run but while I was trying to get my head around the booking site some Sunday evening tickets kept popping up. Eventually I called the Box Office and she said that they had just added a few extra sessions and did I want some tickets? So I booked a family ticket thinking that maybe Adam would want to come with us. Last night was the night - Adam was all partied out but Rachel came with us which was nice. Sadly we had to battle with the Sunday train service - scheduled engineering works on the King's Cross route and unscheduled complete closure of the Liverpool Street route and a 'broken door' on the only train that was running. We ended up driving to Hitchin station to avoid the replacement bus part but coming home we had to get a replacement bus to Hitchin to collect the car! I must say the lack of help at King's Cross for anybody not completely sure of the system (and even for very experienced travellers) was a complete embarrassment to the country. But the exhibition was not a disappointment and it was really cool crisscrossing the closed up V&A to get to it. No photos in the exhibition sadly but this was the 'exit through the gift shop' shot.
Three good things:
1. Excellent exhibition (there's a cinema thing coming up about it if you couldn't get there)
2. Nigel rummaging through the vinyl to find his old albums
3. Large G&T when we finally got back home.
Gosh I have many Bowie vinyls stored away somewhere, used to be so into Bowie, to the extent that I had pinpointed his house in Switzerland! Brings back teenage memories. Glad the exhibition was worth it despite public transport!
I went to his Ziggy Stardust concert in Manchester in 1972 - gosh how that dates me, but it was one of the most brilliant and amazing concerts I've ever attended. Thanks for the memories!!!
Bloody trains! I got 5 minutes into my journey this morning and the train broke down so we sat on it for half an hour before they chucked us off. Finally got on another one and then onto a tube which broke down in a tunnel. Grr! I wanted to see this exhibit - looks really cool. Glad you had fun...and I might dig out my old vinyl now!
@julieco Oh my word - jealous!! Though I definitely didn't 'get' him in 1972 - I had to get a bit older. Nigel is a major fan (well was during the 80's in particular) I didn't think we'd get him out...
I would love to see this exhibition. Surely it will be extended or put on somewhere else as it is so popular? As for the country's transport system being an embarrassment I always cringe when I think that so many visitors' first experience is arriving at Heathrow - a disgusting place.
Fabulous shot I would have loved to see that exhibition. Takes me back to my youth when I went to see him at Bristol Hippodrome in the Aladdin Zane days. One of the most fabulous concerts I have ever been to and I was sat next to a deaf girl was rocking it out.
It doesn't matter where you are in the world when engineering works are done train travel is a nightmare.
great poster photo Fav Glad every thing turned out ok and you managed to see the exhibition shame you had such a difficult journey this Is why I hardly use trains to be honest there are always problems on the lines or signal problems . or delays.
Glad you got to see it despite nightmare journey. 'Rail replacement bus service' - as people who regularly travelled with bikes those were often words that caused us a whole lot of travel-pain. Not a whole lot better with a baby, but at least we can get her on a bus.
June 29th, 2013
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It doesn't matter where you are in the world when engineering works are done train travel is a nightmare.