Sevenoaks and Rochester Visit

It has been a very enjoyable day with excellent sunny weather. I first had to pop over to Faversham to get some pipe tobacco and visit the library. I printed out all the work i needed for the next couple f days.



On the bus from the town going towards my first visit i noticed that a woman had a young dog, a pup, in a pram. I thought it was so sweet i had to take a covert pic of the situation.


The pub was sound asleep and looked very comfortable

After the lunch in Sevenoaks i decided that i had no time to get down to Paddock Wood so i caught a bus, a new journey for me,  that  meandered through lovely villages such as Eynesford towards Swanley , where i caught the train to Rochester,

In Rochester, i visited a Red Cross charity and bought some books for a fiver.  These were -






Afterwards, i mooched around the town and took some more pics with the camera phone. Yeah , left the damn Canon at home again.



This is Rochester cathedral.


This is the castle.

I also perused another book shop which had some appetizing titles in its bookshelves.



Then it was time to hop onto a bus towards Strood and then walk down to the Cineworld cinema for my last visit.

The film i watched, which i had some reservations about, was Chef. It was a delight. A really good feel-good type of film, but what made it special for me was the musical backdrop to it. Latino rhythms, some soul,  but mostly hot percussion led salsa.

I got the tracks from Wikipedia , and i am just salivating over some of these grooves, some of which i have used in my DJ gigs, esp, the first one, and the Hot 8 Brass Band version of the Marvin Gaye track, plus a solid version of the Santana tune "Oye Como Va".

I must have annoyed most of my fellow movie watchers by jiggling in my seat, doing percussive sounds, finger snapping my fingers, and occasionally humming the tunes.


1. "I Like It Like That" Pete Rodriguez 4:25
2. "Lucky Man" Courtney John 3:16
3. "Message To You Rudy" Grant Phabao, Carlton Livingston and The Lone Ranger 5:50
4. "Cavern" Liquid Liquid 5:17
5. "El Michels Affair - C.R.E.A.M" El Michel's Affair 2:54
6. "Hung Over" The Martinis 2:07
7. "Que Se Sepa" Roberto Roena 3:14
8. "Ali Baba" Louie Ramirez 4:16
9. "Homenaje al Benny (Castellano Que Bueno Balia Usted)" Gente de Zona 4:00
10. "Mi Swing Es Tropical" Nickodemus & Quantic 3:56
11. "Bustin' Loose" Rebirth Brass Band 3:55
12. "Sexual Healing" Hot 8 Brass Band 4:59
13. "When My Train Pulls In" Gary Clark Jr. 7:13
14. "West Coast Poplock" Ronnie Hudson And The Street People 5:29
15. "Oye Como Va" Perico Hernandez 4:06
16. "La Quimbumba" Perico Hernandez 6:05
17. "One Second Every Day" Lyle Workman 2:22

In the end, i found the film and its soundtrack one of the best mystery shops i have dome for a while.

Busy again on Thursday with a clicker counting people walking past a site in Canterbury. Buenos noches amigos.

Salsa Morning

All three reports done this morning. Soon i shall be off to Canterbury. So for this morning tune today i have selected some salsa groove featured in that movie Chef which i saw last evening. Pete Rodriguez and the track "I Like It Like That".
Actually a boogalo as I was referring to the sauce I put on my bavcon sarnie.

Now sing along please.

And now some brassy music from the Hot 8 Brass Band and their version of Sexual Healing.

Yeah on my favourite Brighton based label. Also on the Chef soundtrack so i gotta get that album.

Enjoy.

Costa Del Canterbury

Well that has been a long day. Did the footfall job in Canterbury and during break periods did a couple of mystery shop visits, a travel agents and a charity shop.

The weather has been the hottest so far, reaching 28  degrees centigrade at the maximum. A truly superb day for topping up the old tan. Apparently a lot cooler tomorrow. I found a spare cafe chair to sit down and count the people going past a certain shop site which averaged around 400 per fifteen minute slot. It is a busy city especially with all the foreign students and tourists.

These are the items bought from the charity shop visit.



Plus these two CD's

Various Artists - Viva Brazil!
Various Artists - Latin Street Party



A good haul indeed.

I do have photos of course, and i did remember to take the old Canon camera this time. Well i needed it for both the footfall job and the travel agent visit. These will follow in the next post.

More Canterbury Pics

As promised more pics from the streets from the warmest day of the year so far a la Canterbury.
Now before i go any further , i had to photograph this as it made me chuckle.




Okay, it is the same bridge along the High Street but more of the lovely old building this time.






Above, two pics of where i was sitting down doing my count.



This is the museum and library where i was sitting near looking outwards to the empty shop.



And finally looking down the High Street towards Westgate. I like the shadow a building has cast onto the street.