Day 3 in London

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Flat chat yesterday. And I think today will be much the same. Here’s the latest, in exciting new bullet form:

• Breakfast at the hotel: “Continental” breakfast means more or less what you’d have at home. English breakfast is the one to look out for.

  

  Standing near the Albert memorial in Hyde Park.

• The Albert Memorial: Built to remember Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. Tall monument, gold and ornate. Across the road from…
• The Royal Albert Hall: Large and round and quite impressive. I wouldn’t mind coming back sometime…
• Natural HIstory Museum: Nice building. Interesting exhibits.
• Harrods: Basically Myer with history. We felt like it would be a waste to leave without buying anything, so we bought some morning tea and ate it in…
• Hyde Park: Icy from all the snow. Very peaceful though. We shared morning tea with a fairly plump robin – obviously not his first scammed crumb.
• Tom Cribb Inn: to satisfy my desire to eat in a traditional English pub, we found the Tom Cribb Inn, near Picadilly Circus. I had Fish and Chips with mushy peas and Anna had a chicken pie. We washed it down with a pint of fine English ale.
• Britain at War Museum: INteresting, but not compulsory viewing.
• Back to the Hotel for a quick nap, then…
• Cirque de Soliel at the Royal Albert Hall: This was unbelievable. We didn’t have tickets, but were able to buy some at a good price out the front from a chap who looked seriously dodgy but seemed to have the goods. The show: Awesome. The Hall: Impressive. The man in front of us with the huge head: Disappointing but inevitable.

Yesterday’s pedometer reading: 16, 457 steps.

Today I do my first driving in the UK. Driving through snow is pretty simple, right?

Tom and Anna.