Out and about in London

Before we got here, I made a mental list of the “must-do” things but in the end I don’t think we even did a quarter of them. And this was fine. Both times by the time we got to London we were all so tired from the travel we’d done that we were just happy to have some quiet time at home. Still, we did manage to tick off a number of the sights on my list.

Sunday evening stroll across the Westminster Bridge.

Chinatown for yum cha.

Riding the London Rail on our girls’ day out to Borough market.

The “real” Platform 9 and 3/4 at King’s Cross Station

Off to the school of magic!

While we girls were wizarding, the boys went and did their thing, a haircut was top of their list.

Styled and cut by a Malaysian hairdresser that they stumbled across in Lewisham.

Museums, museums, museums. London has so many wonderful museums, but we only had time to visit three of them. Top of the list was the British museum. 

The Rosetta Stone, a replica of it which is why fingers, arms, face etc are allowed on it!

Holding an old roman coin.

Next up was the Natural History Museum. The last time we were here, I was on my own with the kids and Ryan was five while Mia was still in her pram. Ryan was fascinated with dinosaurs then and loved seeing all his favourite dinos here. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, both kids have no recollection of their visit so for them it was like seeing everything for the first time.

First time on the ice. Skating at the ice rink outside the museum. She picked it up so quickly.

Face-off 💪🏼

The last museum we visited was the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, in fact Ryan and Shad went twice. Once on their own while Mia and I stayed home as she nursed a bad cough. They enjoyed it very much and Ryan was very keen for us to go so the day before we left London we all went again for a quick visit.

Tracing our steps, from the start of our journey in July to this point in time... 3 months on. 

Seems like no matter how much time we give ourselves here in London, the days all pass much too quickly. So it was time to say bye, and this time we will not be returning. It’s been good to spend an extended period of time with Tania and Graeme. We were all very sad to leave.

Pudding treats in Greenwich at Bill’s. Our last sisters’ outing, I’m going to miss her very much when we leave 😢.

Very sad to say bye.