Up and out this morning, we were at the station by 9:45am and a very efficient railway employee found us the cheapest way to travel round London for the day (£10.60 each for all 6 travel zones). We didn’t travel all the way to King’s Cross but got off at Finsbury Park to get on the London underground Piccadilly Line to travel to South Kensington. Here we went to the Natural History Museum (it is a family traditional to visit the dinosaurs).
For the first time there was a 20 minute queue to wait in before we got in.
the architecture is amazing as well as the exhibits.
From here we walked to the science museum, Maddy accompanied us on the promise of buttons to press!
As we wandered around the museums we collected memorabilia and fridge magnets (Ivy’s fridge is covered with a history of our lives over the past few years).
We came out needing refreshment and fortunately there was an ice cream van outside (£1.50 each) on the way to the V&A which is less than 100m from the science museum. Maddy wanted to visit the V&A to see the Victorian fashions but unfortunately the fashion gallery was closed so all we got to see was a gallery of sculptures.
So we headed to Leicester Square to find some food. As we came out of the tube this was the first theatre we saw. (Dr. Who fans will understand!).
Walking to Trafalgar Square we found a Tesco express for food and a Waterstones where Geoff found some more Star Wars books to take back with us. We sat on the fountains to enjoy our picnic, getting sprayed as the wind blew.
There has been clock set up in Trafalgar Square to count down to the 2012 Olympics.
By now the tube was getting quite crowded so we headed back to Hatfield via Finsbury Park for TV and dinner.
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