so yeah.
the older part of town was great.
super fabulous.
reminded me a bit of the other cities that i dig here.
hated the cold though.
kept walking around.
the area was filled with academies of this or that. university of this or that.
lots of students and people learning things.
then we turned down this other street and found the shops. shoes, gloves, bears.
didn't buy the bear though.
got gloves instead. love leather gloves. more to add to my collection.
bear. grr.

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there were also tea houses.
and adjacent to many of those were chocolate houses.
where people could shop for chocolate treats, gifts, or whatnot
or just simply mainline the stuff.
hmmm hot cocoa. hot white cocoa. with frothy creamy heated milk to get one all comfy warm
until the cramps arrive and then the body realizes it's poison. Grrr. we didn't go in obviously.

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there's a store called traffic.
kind of like your media megaplex.
DVDs CDs magazines books gifts food. even a gallery of images for show/purchase.
inside, there was a wall of glass where stained glass images added a really nice touch to the place.
people were tapping away at their laptops or browsing books or potential purchases.
oh, and the DVD section has monitors set up so you could actually just watch the movies there.
sylvie walked to the magazine area and pointed me out among the racks
yippee

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was getting late so had dinner at some resto where all the boys looked alike,
then rushed back to the tomba tomba club to collect our things

instead of going straight to M25, we headed off for a theater where a show of some sort was going on.
we had tix to see and it seemed really interesting.
forgot the title though.
we were lead into the theater by men in white. somewhat medical type uniforms.
videos were shown on the walls of maggots and worms squirming around.
there was a cellist playing in one of the doorways as we walked by.
nice touch. as we walked into the main seating area, red lights started to dim leaving only a single semi naked dude hanging from a red bit of material. he was shouting something. i guess along the lines of 'meat meat i am meat'.
he ended up moving in his suspension until the fabric that first held him in a comfortable cradle became simple bands around his ankles.
he lowered himself with his hands and then left the stage. then a bunch of video showing a couple. dancing bending. um. more video, then curtain rises to show more bodies calm at first then going into jerky movements.
dancing n stuff and then we were led up to the stage to see the couple on some big table with the 'i am meat guy' crawling around them before departing. crazy video of eclectic scenes portraying humans as flesh and meat and nothing blasted on 3 walls. i guess the theme of the show had something to do with bodies and meat and flesh and nothing but.
though i question in the end, why couldnt the dancers just be nude? if we're just supposed to be alike and a pile of meat, then wouldnt the message be better stated if the performers were shown as such? and not concerned with modesty (their own or ours).
oh well. the end of the show came and as we were escorted off the stage, the cellist came back with a singer. that was nice. the seating are we were in had the other dances strewn across them in various spots. lots of red. i guess they were supposed to be dead.
parts of the show were really nice. almost too pretty.
they shoulda been naked.
no pix of the show of course.
not that rude.