This last minute offer is available from my chum Simon at Theatre Breaks Ltd for the evening performances of Friday 2nd June and Saturday 3rd June and the matinee performance of Saturday June 3rd. Euro2000 Football Tournament starts the following week. That man in your life can earn big Brownie points by taking you off for a romantic London weekend before he settles down to a marathon football session in front of the Television set. Booking instructions are in my Travel Tips at the end of this article. The rebuilt Royal Opera House which was opened by the Queen last November is the jewel in the revamped Covent Garden .
People are so pleased with it that they have almost forgotten just how much it cost to build.
But that's another story. If the weather is friendly pause for a leisurely glass of wine at a pavement table at Mullins just off the Covent Garden Piazza, and watch the world and his Lady pass by. If you enter be prepared to use brute force to fight your way to the packed bar. Thereafter maintain eye and voice contact until served, lest you lose him to another thirstier than you. The bar scene is little different on Sunday morning when the London pub fraternity stagger forth to beat their hangover into submission with more of the same.