Day 3 - London again
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| Inside Kings Cross International train station |
It's amazing what a good sleep can do. Felt great after having a good seven hours. Earplugs were hardly needed for late comers - I think I was probably the only one snoring too.
I tried to make up for it by creeping around for some time it with the lock up drawer right under one girls face, it wasn't easy.
I went for a walk after that, attracted by a tall building down the road a bit. As I got closer I was blown away by how enormous it was apparently a motel. But later worked out it was Kings Cross station. Check out the photos.
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| St Pancras Station - next to Kings Cross Station |
I reckon £200 is well worth it.
After a disappointing breakfast I went to the London museum. Free Internet was working from there so I was able go catch up with some emails and stuff but haven't been able to find put how to upload these blogs yet. Hope I can soon otherwise it will be to much at once. Anyway the museum wasn't open until 10 so I thought I'd explore Trafalgar Square instead. Caught a bus and made a fool myself pushing at the door to get out when we weren't at a stop. Luckily only the driver was around to have a bit of a giggle.
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| Nelson and me having a giggle at Trafalgar Square |
The square? Well all I can say is that Nelson must be having a bit of a giggle himself about the traffic down below. He's soo far up he could do anything he likes and no one would know.
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| National Art Gallery - BIG |
I didn't really think I wanted to see the British National Gallery but it was there and it was free and I saw the doors open so I thought I'd kill an hour. What a surprise. It was huge. It seemed like every room had a collection of masterpieces. Turner. Van Gogh - "the guy without an earhole" I heard one American guy say out loud - Renoir, as well as heaps I hadn't heard of before. An hour was far too short.
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| ... with some BIG masterpieces |
But I had somewhere else to go. Out to the suburbs where my niece Clare lived with her hobbies Tommy and their three children Clothilde - who was at school - Aurelia and their new baby Tancredi. It was such a privilege to visit such a beautiful family. They had only been back from Italy a week - where they spend a lot of time and where all three of their children - as well as Tommy of course - were born. Aurelia, who was 2 and a half, was only beginning to learn English. Photos of her were taken before and after she fell and bumped her head. I learnt a lot about their amazing life and from Tommy a bit more about how the creative mind works - a new perspective.
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| Tommy, Aurelia, Clare and Tancredi |
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| ... in their (relatively) new London place |
After a great lunch with these guys. It was back to London where I walked from Trafalgar Square to the Globe. I was lucky to be at the right place and the right time to see a poor relative to the changing of guards at Buckingham Palace. Christopher Robin and Alice weren't there though. It was the changing of the guard at the Horse guard museum. Still a lot of ground stomping, yelling things out loud - I'm sure he called out "dickhead" at one stage - and walking in meaningless circles. I filmed a bit of it - but there was a lot of awkward waiting around moments.
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| A walk along the Thames - started near the London Eye |
I loved the walk along the south side of the Thames- catching snippets of conversations, watching the buskers - one guy was playing the witches hat?!? Another (below) the tuba with flames coming out the top on the big notes.
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| a busker near the Thames |
I was too late for a visit inside the Globe but I tried to buy £5 tickets to watch Macbeth that night from the pit. No go unfortunately. - maybe on my last days when I return from Italy next month.
Another double decker bus ride home was fun and after shower and pizza for tea I was happy for an early night.
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