Chris Moore's Blog » Bars http://www.chrism.com/blog Random bits about life and technology Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:51:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Orange Rooms in Bournemouth http://www.chrism.com/blog/2009/11/14/orange-rooms-in-bournemouth/ http://www.chrism.com/blog/2009/11/14/orange-rooms-in-bournemouth/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:18:32 +0000 chris-moore http://www.chrism.com/blog/?p=266 Orange rooms in bournemouthI am in Bournemouth for a friend’s birthday weekend and decided to have a lazy Saturday afternoon, catching up on RSS feeds and writing some blog posts (e.g. this beauty on X-factor and Twitter).  I’ve also been reading through some posts on Seth Godin’s blog and trying to relate them to my current work.  People watching in a bar is the best place to ponder things like that in my opinion – not exactly sure why though!

It is my first time in Bournemouth, so I completely relied on my iphone to guide me from my hotel to an area with bars and restaurants.  I managed to find a funky little place called ‘Orange’.  When I arrived  (about 2.5 hours ago) it was fairly empty, however it’s slowly got busier and there is now a steady volume of chatter and louder music.  I am sitting next to the window, watching the world go by and enjoying unexpected waiter service whilst I type away in to my netbook.

Orange bar in bournemouthHanging chair in orange bar

They have a good selection of food available, with a typical bar menu covering various types of cuisines.  I went for a spicey chicken burito which came covered in melted cheese and tomato.  It was not too spicy, but certain did fill up a gap (the gap being breakfast which I missed). 

The bar staff told me that there is a DJ playing here tonight, so I may ask the group if they fancy coming for a drink before we go to the club. 

In all honesty, I could happily sit here, order some wine and wait for the others to come out, however I’m going to need to get changed out of my scruffy clothes before we head to the club.  Time to shut down the netbook and head back to the hotel for a jacuzzi I think.  Nice afternoon :-)

If you are ever in Bournemouth and you fancy giving this place a try (I recommend it), here is a map (click to view on Bing maps)…

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]]> http://www.chrism.com/blog/2009/11/14/orange-rooms-in-bournemouth/feed/ 1 Drinks and Pretzels by the river in Paulaner’s Biergarten, Shanghai http://www.chrism.com/blog/2009/08/18/drinks-and-pretzels-by-the-river-in-paulaners-biergarten-shanghai/ http://www.chrism.com/blog/2009/08/18/drinks-and-pretzels-by-the-river-in-paulaners-biergarten-shanghai/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:46:31 +0000 chris-moore http://www.chrism.com/blog/2009/08/18/drinks-and-pretzels-by-the-river-in-paulaners-biergarten-shanghai/ image Tonight is my last night in Shanghai, Chris, a colleague from MS Shanghai offered to show me around a little.  We went over to Pudong, which is on the opposite side of the river to my hotel, and hosts many of the local financial institutions. 

We went up to the top of the financial center, which is the tallest building in Asia (I will post separately about that later). Afterwards we wondered down to the river and found a great place called Paulaner’s Beirgarden, which was right next to the river Yangtze river. 

It was a great spot! There was some dodgy Chinese band inside singing ‘Hotel California’ and classics from Shakira, but we were outside so only had the pleasure of hearing them during visits to the toilets. We ended up chatting for a few hours, drinking a few glasses of wine/beer and enjoying the night time heat whilst watching the boats sail by.  Good times :-)

Here is a little video of the place we were sitting…

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Xin Tian Di street againXin Tian Di is a lovely little area of Shanghai with lots of restaurants and bars built in renovated old residential properties.  All of the buildings are composed of a mixture of traditional Chinese architecture with what appears to be European (or at least Western) influence to inject a little modernism.  I loved how traditional the building felt, even with the futuristic sky scrapers towering in the background.

Charles and Helen acted as great tour guides…

 

…and they took me to a place called ‘Chat Tea’ (the English name) where we had a Chinese Tea and fruit cocktail…

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