Friday 13/12
Managed to sleep through breakfast so when I finally got myself into gear breakfast was my first stop.
I headed out to the Victoria & Albert Museum to see the ‘Club to Catwalk - fashions from the 80's’ exhibition. It was really interesting and songs from that era were booming out - it was hard to stand still & not start moving & grooving!
( For those of you who are my work colleagues it was like a Friday morning!)
I look at the other exhibits which included fashions from the ages and I had to wonder if we’d ever worn some of them. There were a number of interesting exhibitions to visit. After I’d had my fill of this museum I crossed the road to the Natural History museum. In the grounds of that museum was an ice rink and carousel where people were enjoying their time. I didn’t spend too long there and soon headed back to the hotel for a rest.
Managed to sleep through breakfast so when I finally got myself into gear breakfast was my first stop.
I headed out to the Victoria & Albert Museum to see the ‘Club to Catwalk - fashions from the 80's’ exhibition. It was really interesting and songs from that era were booming out - it was hard to stand still & not start moving & grooving!
( For those of you who are my work colleagues it was like a Friday morning!)
I look at the other exhibits which included fashions from the ages and I had to wonder if we’d ever worn some of them. There were a number of interesting exhibitions to visit. After I’d had my fill of this museum I crossed the road to the Natural History museum. In the grounds of that museum was an ice rink and carousel where people were enjoying their time. I didn’t spend too long there and soon headed back to the hotel for a rest.
In the evening Kerry, Justin and I went to see War Horse at Drury Lane in theatre land. The play was amazing and we were four rows from the stage.
Things I’ve noticed:
The stink of exhaust fumes hanging in the cold morning air
Seeing your breath
Being caught up in a sea of people on station escalators
Being jammed into the Tube like Sardines
The frequency and speed ( how do they stay on the rails?) of the tube
The different accents
Red double decker buses and black London cabs
Choirs singing carols at railway stations
How often you are underground
Christmas decorations
How brilliant the supermarkets are
Saturday 14/12
Early breakfast and then off to fight my way onto the tube as I made my way to Covent Garden. It was fairly cold today as I braved the tourist areas. It must have been mad Saturday as there were hundreds of people dressed as Santa.
Caught up with Kerry and Justin for lunch at a pub near London Bridge. There were lots of people around - I suppose it was the main Christmas shopping day but I wished they’d stayed home!
Now I’m at a hotel at Gatwick Airport as Kerry & I jet off to Tallin tomorrow.
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