Retail Anti-therapy
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The biggest urban shopping mall in Europe opened in Shepherds Bush this week, and being the nosey types, we decided to go and check it out.
Initial impressions weren’t the best to be honest. The nearby tube station has been closed for a while to be refurbished so it could cope with the new mall, but we were horrified to find that there are only 2 escalators and both of those were out of operation. So all the many, many shoppers had to go up (and down) 1 single winding staircase to exit or enter the tube network. Absolutely ridiculous, not sure which idiots planned that one.
The mall itself is nice, big and has load of shops. One at the entrance caught my eye straight away. :o)
We got lost straight away, but it is a bit of a maze.
Then the first thing we wanted to do was grab lunch. This is where we came to another sticking point. There isn’t a central food court, just 2 or 3 separate areas to eat in. Plus, all of them but one (Eat) are the sit down meal places. There is no where to grab a quick bite and run. As a result there were huge queues for food.
In the end we gave up and went to Waitrose. We munched on a nice baguette each and a couple of cakes. Standing up of course.
After that we returned to the madness of the mall and noticed crowds of people around the stage area.
A full orchestra was performing some very rousing music, then on came some gospel singers who sang ‘Proud’ the UK Olympics song.
Very good it was too. If a little like watching The X Factor.
So will we go again? Probably, but most likely not on a weekend, and certainly not for lunch.
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