Campervan Day today!

Going down in the train to get the campervan today. Brad & Mel came home yesterday lunchtime - we had our first seriously lazy day, was very nice too!! London has been amazing - so much to see around every corner. Highlights: tourist hop on/off double decker bus with full commentary - this was a great introduction to the city - learned all sorts of interesting facts which we will bore you all silly with when we get home :-)

The Globe Theatre was fabulous, this is a recreation of Shakespeare's Globe - there is also an amazing display on the way in showing how they built it - all very authentic (no nails) and also the costumes etc that they have recreated as close to how they would have been. As luck would have it we wandered in on the one free day of the year - the day of Shakespeare's birth and death. That night they were putting a Shakespeare play on in Maori!! Part of a festival in many languages.

The London Marathon was on a couple of days ago so that was really fun to see and we got to stand on closed bridges etc - hence the photo of Gus in front of Parliament Buildings...

One of the things we have really enjoyed about London is the way you just go for a walk somewhere and come across things like this wall from a ruined palace built in 14 something or a Roman road or Keat's House or Charles Dickens favourite pub. We were expecting history but had no idea how much!! Also Brad took us for a walk yesterday and we came across the British Memorial War Museum. It was quite amazing - nuclear warheads, spitfires, V1 & V2 rockets, personal submarines. I was fascinated for about 1/2 hour but could see that we wouldn't get Gus away - he stayed until chucking out time at 6pm!! We are soon going to catch a bus and then a train down to collect our campervan, very excited about that - may not be quite as regular with the blog as our internet access won't be quite as reliable....