Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]GeeBee wrote: > From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> > Subject: [Leica] Northern England - more Cloudscapes > > > >>From the Humber to the Tyne and beyond, more cloudy, moody,stormy and >>some wide-angly skies. >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > Hi Douglas, > > Rendezvous Cafe is a cracker!! > > --Graham > > > Thanks Graham, it's one of my all time favourites too, and one of the oldest. Brings back many happy memories of what we today call Capuccino, then we just called it "Froffy-Coffy". The place is still run by a family of Italian descent, I was greatly enamoured of their daughter, Titiana. But, in the end all it did was increase their takings. A true Italian Cafe as they used to be. I'll try and find some photos of the inside, I must have them somewhere. The Cafe used to be frequented by such illustrious guest as Gordon Sumner (Sting) and the Knopfler brothers. Just a couple of hundred yards away is "Spanish City" which was mentioned in a "Dire Straits" song, I forget which one, a sort of run-down amusement arcade and fun-fair. Sting's brother still runs a bar on the seafront not far away. cheers Douglas