Up very early. Grand Final starts at 5:30am - London Time. Our fancy hotel didn't have ESPN. We had to go to the Carlsberg Bar at the Casino to see the game. We arrived, very optimistic only to sit with the drunks who had been there since yesterday. It started bad and very quickly got worse. We didn't stay till the end. That's all that needs to be said.Westminster Bridge at 7am on a Saturday morning- empty. We didn't realise how peaceful and how b...

Well, we made it to London - Just made the train. A series of unfortunates combined to work against our planned time table. The first was that the taxi took ages to arrive (though probably we should have been ready earlier) Then the nasty Paris traffic conspired to make us later and then there was a bomb scare at the station. What surprised us the most however was that even though the UK is part of the EU, there is strict  passport checking. We ended up with th...

We left Yeovil early to have as much of the day as possible in London. Passed Stonehenge. It's still hard to get used to seeing thousand year old relics being so common. Got to London easily , an early checkin had been sorted for us, room lovely. All perfect. Got the train to London. Found the last minute ticket stand in Leicester square. Decided to go to so Wicked then went for lunch before heading to the British Museum. The museum is huge and full of items ...