LIFESTYLE
Originally published on Monday, 01 September 2008
Big Kids Days Out
When a traditional sweet shop, complete with red and white stripy paper bags, jars of colourful penny sweets, and vintage treats at pocket money prices, popped up on Columbia Road, it got us yearning for some good old-fashioned, innocent fun. Even the name, Suck & Chew, didn’t make us giggle. Much.
Nothing says a vintage day out like a trip to the old seaside style freak show; and Ripley’s new Believe It or Not! Museum of Oddities has an abundance of freaky weirdness on offer, including a £500,000 Swarovski Crystal-Covered Mini Cooper and a genuine 16th Century Iron Maiden.
And at Jurassic Encounter, it literally doesn’t get older than the Dinosaur age meets mini golf; designed by a crack-American team of over-the-top experts, this new course is full of waterfalls, caves, vegetation and yes, dinosaurs.
Winner buys the first round? We’ll just take a 99. But instead of the flake we’ll have a straw. And beer instead of ice cream. What, you didn’t expect miracles did you? We are grown ups, after all
Suck & Chew, 130 Columbia Road, E2