The overcast streets of South Kensington were oddly, creepily silent Friday evening. This neighborhood resembled the quaintest of ghost towns, with few cars and fewer pedestrians traveling Cromwell Road, save for the occasional tourist.
So empty were London’s streets that the American tennis player Andy Roddick took a rare trip into town for dinner.
“I decided to take advantage of no traffic,” he said. “You’d be amazed how quickly you can get down there when an England game is on.”
If only we played as good a game as we talked.
London has some very nice restaurants.
RE: “So empty were London’s streets that the American tennis player Andy Roddick took a rare trip into town for dinner.”
Thank goodness a real athlete is mentioned in the past two weeks of World Cup coverage.
Soccer — pah!
Wimbledon — the hallowed halls of green cometh.
All the best sports use grass as the premier surface on which to display athletic prowess (not varnished wood, not plastic imitating grass, and certainly not ice – though each have their virtues they are no grass).
BTW I hear the complaints about vuvuzelas have now risen to governmental levels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ln_rqPpPk
driver8, I read that vuvuzelas are now being produced the U.S. The supplier sold out rapidly and is ramping up production. We can expect to see them at soccer/football matches, baseball games, and American football games. Get earplugs and be sure your television has closed captioning so you can turn the sound off.
Good Lord, no!