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Violetta, companion in London Bridge
Flat heels, 178 cm, and still the tallest person in the room.
- Age
- 30
- Works from
- London Bridge
- Height
- 178 cm
- Hair
- long black, sleek straight
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- tall and slender
- Languages
- English
- An hour opens at
- £250
Guests are 18+. She sets the limits of her own booking, and a fee covers her time and her company, nothing besides. The whole ladder is on the rates page.
About Violetta
Violetta stands 178 cm, tall and slender, and has spent her adult life as the first thing people notice in a room. Her hair is black and sleek and absolutely straight, long enough to reach the middle of her back, and her brown eyes are set in a face that photographs far colder than it is in person. She dresses in long, narrow lines, a column dress, a coat to the ankle, flat shoes more often than not. She has stopped being tall apologetically, which took most of her twenties.
At 30 she is measured, wry and unexpectedly silly once she trusts the company. She speaks English slowly, weighing a word before spending it. She is a serious reader, mostly history and mostly other people's letters, and she is fascinated by Victorian engineering in a way that makes SE1 an ideal place to spend an evening. She dislikes being photographed, dislikes crowds, and has a very low tolerance for anyone performing an opinion they do not hold.
Her London Bridge is Hay's Galleria on Tooley Street, a Victorian dock basin roofed over in iron and glass with a great bronze ship sitting in the middle of it, and she likes it at about nine when the arcade is nearly empty and the roof does something extraordinary with the light. Out of the far end it is thirty seconds to the river wall, with Tower Bridge lit up to the left and the whole north bank opposite. Belgravia is home, and she comes in by cab in about twenty minutes.
The arcade and the river wall are on the London Bridge page. From £250 an hour, the longer evenings on rates. A note to booking is enough to hold a night.
- Height 178 cm, tall and slender
- Long black hair, sleek and straight; eyes brown
- Age 30, English speaking
- Home district Belgravia, evenings across SE1 and E14
- Out of hours: history, Victorian engineering, other people's letters
Booking her evening
The arcade, the river wall and a table with no rush in it come to three hours at £700, and £900 across four suits a slower night. Maude will suggest a table within a few minutes' walk of wherever you are staying.
Her figures are the desk figures, printed in full on the rates page, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation.
- 1 hour£250
- 90 minutes£400
- 2 hours£500
- 3 hours£700
- Dinner date£900
- Overnight£1,800
- WeekendPOA
Also on the desk
An evening with Violetta
Nine o'clock is when she wants to be there, once the arcade has emptied and the iron and glass roof has the whole place to itself. It was a dock basin once, water and tea clippers, and somebody had the sense to roof it rather than fill it in. In the middle sits an enormous bronze ship that moves, which she will make you watch for a full minute. She is good on the history: the tea, the warehouses, why the roof is shaped the way it is. Thirty seconds out of the far end and you are on the river wall with Tower Bridge lit to the left and the water going past very fast. Supper after that is unhurried, and she is in no rush to end anything.
Violetta, in her own words
Why nine o'clock?
Because by then the arcade is empty and you can hear your own footsteps under that roof. At seven it is a thoroughfare with a coffee queue in it.
Does the height bother people?
It used to bother me, which is a different problem. I wear flat shoes when I want to and I have stopped folding myself into photographs.
Other people's letters?
Published collections, nothing sinister. You learn more about a century from one honest letter than from a shelf of histories of it.
Where she sits
What guests have written
Nothing is written here for Violetta yet, which is usually what discretion looks like in E14. A note appears only when a guest writes one, she agrees to it, and the desk has checked that it reads as a first name, a month and nothing private.