Shoot Day 8: London UK

Miles walked: Infinite
Tube Trains/ rides: 10-15
Singing in the rain: Priceless




After a nice little break, we resume our filming to include the UK. Doron and Yoni met me at the airport in Tel Aviv at 5 am'ish? for a 7am departure to London (Luton Airport). The flight was 5.5 hours and despite some heavy turbulence, all was good..... well except for an interesting side note. Doron and Yoni and I didn't get to sit together. Doron was in the back of the plane and Yoni was next to me.

So I see my row and a Chasidic gentleman was sitting next to the window. I saw him and immediatly hinted to Yoni to sit in the middle because the Chasidic man wasn't going to sit next to a woman who isn't their wife. Anyway, before I even tried to put my bag down, he asks nicely to not sit next to me. See what did I tell ya! I have a contagious illness? Yoni didn't like it. He said it wasn't my problem (me) - and that it was his - he didn't want to sit next to me. He's right, but what can you do.

Anway, Yoni and I ended up sharing an empty three seater on the other side.



We arrive in London around 11am. After a train ride and several tube stations later, we arrive at the equipment rental house. Doron split to go to the hotel to put our luggage in the room. Yoni and I checked equipment and started to shoot immediately. Doron met up with us later and got more filming done between frequent light showers, which later turned clear with clouds.

We were very lucky. Despite word that many camera crews get asked by police to stop filming if they don't have permits etc... or just plain....stop filming. We saw many cops and they never asked us anything or even approached us. Our camera rental company was actually surprised. It's as if we could have done whatever we wanted.



We ended the day with more amazing shots. We ate dinner at a Persian restaurant not far from the hotel and afterwards had a little struggle with PC versus MAC hard drives (in the end, we sorted it out on Friday). A kind man let us use his PC laptop. This meant the director and producer can sleep easily.

Tomorrow:(Friday) - Kew Gardens, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace and an attempt at the London Eye.

Leora