Pint with a view

At about 5:30pm - which was a little later than I had hoped - I got on a train and headed for Waterloo to meet Mark for a drink or two. We started with pizza at Azzurro just under the bridge. We sat outside, but set back from the passing crowds, and it was all lovely.  We went on to get a follow-on drink in the Royal Festival Hall bar. The bar was lovely and quiet and really is the kid of place that I should remember. It only got busy during the interval of the show; and I have no idea what was on.  We sat looking out at some kind of neon tree installation at the Hayward Gallery but I haven’t been able to confirm what they were.  The bar did close relatively early and so we went outside.