Of the many parts of the Nadia. The first thing that I want to mention, is that I didn’t forget Nadia. But I did leave her on the dark streets of London due to failed phone signal- the City of London no less (lots of untrustworthy Finance types around there), and Sameer had to go rescue her. Which meant we were all a bit late to the show, which was the first event of the trip. Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool. I know of Mike from storytelling on This American Life, but didn’t know much more about him, his life or his comedy. The show itself was broadly about aging, health and the threat of imminent death, and was engaging all the way through, but definitely sat more as a comedic story rather than full on comedy. ★★★ Nadia Review: Mike has good story telling abilities, turning normal stories into comedy even though he speaks about serious stuff like disease and death. I grinned a lot but only laughed out loud once, … Continue reading Nadia the First, part a