Museums, sights, shows and galleries

Time to see a bit of the finer side of this London town now, so Julia headed back to the tower of London to hear how they treated the prisoners etc.

This is a cheeky squirrel having morning tea at litter cafe.


Fred took geoffs advice and popped over to the national maritime museum at Greenwich, which was fantastic, all about boats as you can imagine! The clocks required for longtitude navigation at Greenwich were a good reminder as to how precise our lives have got. Then had to run down the hill to the cutty sark tea clipper which they have restored beautifully.





Julia had moved on to St Paul's cathedral for a look around the place, and was pleased to see that all the writing in there was in English rather than Latin!

Fred went to the Tate modern art museum on the south bank, which is built inside an old dis-used power Station. Massive space for galleries, and a crazy art exhibition by Tino Sehgal, which involves live humans for the art rather than fixed objects. The people on the left are all part of the exhibit.



That night we went to a west end show called "We will rock you" with all the music from queen hits (the band that is). Was awesome to go along to. No photos allowed sorry. :(

Next day Fred headed off to get first in the queue for the natural history museum, turns out you could spend about a week in there reading everything and looking to stuff. The exhibition they had was about Scott when he was heading for the south pole in 1912, but got beaten by a month by Amundsen. Then they almost made it back, but died within 20km of there last food depot


They have lots of stuffed animals too, so here is a pic of 3 dodo's


And a big rack


Then we met up for a quick blitz on the credit card at Harrods, but turns out we didn't have enough credit (phew), so we got a coffee and cake instead. You can see the Harrods symbol on top of the tiramisu. Julia wanted to get Tahi a new collar from the pet section until she turned it over and read the price tag.



Next up was a nice bike ride in Hyde park and we stopped dipped our feet in the Diana fountain with all the other kids there, and someone had a wee rest on the grass under a tree


Then biked about a bit more before going to a pub for tea, and off to the royal albert for bbc proms, which was bit different to what we thought but no worries.

Picking up a car tomorrow for nice wee drive down souf luv.


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