General: London trip

This weekend the weather forecast wasn’t great, and being bank holiday was bound to rain :-)  so decided to go to London for the day.

Although we didn’t want to buy anything specific, our plan was to start out in Camden Lock Market, then go to Trafalgar Square for the festival being held there there and also look in the National Gallery. mostly because we hadn’t been to either place before.

Got the train from to Waterloo and the tube up to Camden and got to Camden Lock Market about midday.   Had a good walk about and Lynn bought a dress…. I nearly bought some jeans but found they didn’t take credit card (and didn’t have any cash!) so missed out on the bargain…   Weather was warm and sunny so was very pleasant walking around and had a nice lunch there as well.

Feeling refreshed, we decided to walk back to Trafalgar Square, which took 45 mins or so, but allowed us to stroll through some parts of London we hadn’t seen before and was interesting to see what was going on.

On arriving at Trafalgar Square we wanted to see what was going on.  There were a lot of people and a large screen showing the Olympics, but apart from a few people prancing around in leotards there wasn’t much happening…. so went into the National Gallery.    Neither of us had been before, so was interesting to look around.  I was a little disappointed at first as all the pictures seemed to be religious, with a few mythological scenes thrown in, after all once you have seen one picture of Christ's crucifixion, you have seen them all!     We persevered and the second part of the gallery had more of what I was expecting to see, with Constable, Turner, Van Gogh and the other famous painters all being represented.  

We then went onto Hamleys to have a nose around like we normally do, but didn’t get tempted to make any purchases.

As time was marching on, we decided to march on as well, so walked back to Waterloo via the Hungerford Bridge Footway.  We were both glad of the rest by the time we got onto the train, and didn’t even need to walk far for our dinner as we stopped at Jagz in Ascot where we needed to change trains anyway.   All in all, a very nice trip out and even the weather stayed nice :-)