I went into town for a free Lomography workshop in 360 degree photography. They make a camera that spins 360 when you pull a little string, like a salad spinner, whilst you hold a handle attached to the bottom of the camera. Hard to explain but what you get is 35mm negatives without any breaks, so a continuous negative of a 360 view. There were only 3 of us in the class, we wandered around the piers by the Ferry Building but I had to leave early because I had agreed to meet up with the Dutch guy who had made a video of the homeless man. The reality did not live up to my image of a cool Dutch man, just back from a road trip down the West coast. He was really nice, a primary school IT teacher. A self described geek. It turned out that he had not actually made the video, he had wanted to but when he had arranged to meet the homeless guy again he had never turned up. So, it is a bit of a non-story but it is always nice to meet nice people. In the Netherlands they also have health insurance but there it is compulsory (like Obama is trying to bring in) and seems to work as a system. I guess having much fewer people in a much smaller country helps.
I have managed to break the loo; not my fault, the plastic handle inside the cistern broke and looked as if it was on its way out anyway. I’m hoping that Sandra won’t keep my deposit because of it but I can imagine that she might. I got told off for scratching the inside of the tumble dryer, I didn’t even know that was a thing to avoid.
Bradley took me out for a Korean BBQ; there are lots near me so it was just round the corner on Geary Street. We had a little grill in between us on which we cooked beef rib meat and belly pork. They were delicious. We were presented with 16 different plates of bit and pieces to eat with the meat; lettuce, radish, tiny little fish like mini, mini whitebait but chewy rather than crunchy, bean sprouts, something like coleslaw and lots of things that I couldn’t identify. At the end of the meal we were given little bowls of rice wine but I was in the loo when they arrived so Bradley told me it was for washing my fingers in. So I did. Luckily for him I thought that it was hilarious, apparently his ex-girlfriend had a hissy fit when he did it to her. Although he did it the other way round and told her that you were meant to drink the hot, lemon soup after eating lobster.
From there we went to Thieves Tavern which is the dive bar that we went to before. They had Olympic highlights on so I got to watch Tom Daley get bronze, Mo Farah get Gold and the Jamaicans win Gold in the relay. Afterwards we got a California burrito which is steak, chips and cheese wrapped in a tortilla. With some gravy this would go down a storm in the Toon.
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