A trip to London and off to Saigon

I had written this the other day and for some reason, perhaps down to me, it had not saved, so shall we try again?

Mum came to stay for the weekend and we decided that as Daniel was away enjoying traipsing around Europe that we would have a girlie weekend and a visit to London.  Sarah was plodding the fields with Lucy and Jack in the morning so we set off about 2ish to catch a train up to London for the afternoon and evening.  We had arranged chauffeur services back from the station when we arrive home late at night - Martin!  

Arriving in London we headed to Covent Garden as Sarah wanted to visit the Magnum shop - she decided against it when she saw the queue heading out of the door and around the block...............  Now magnums are lovely but there is only a certain amount of time that you want to stand outside in the heat for an ice cream.  Today was not going to be that day.

We decided that as we hadn't had lunch we would eat earlyish so we would then have plenty of time to have a look around before our visit.  We settled on Cafe Rouge courtesy of Tesco clubcard with the total bill coming to £13.00 for drinks.  Not bad at all.  I do love my clubcard points and have had a few trips out recently.

Suitably fed and watered we decided to head out for a walk along the River and caught the tube down to Embankment, walked across Hungerford Bridge and then onto the Festival Hall where toilets could be found  - a benefit of taking 30 children up to London, you remember where the toilets are located!  

It was a lovely afternoon, the sun was shining and there were lots of people around just enjoying the sunshine.  We did a spot of people watching from the bridge, looked at the sights of the riverbank and had a sit down at the Festival Hall watching and listening to the Clapping concert that was going on...... can't say I was inspired at all by people standing around clapping their hands but whatever people enjoy.  Mum and Sarah were more intrigued by some guys on the lower floor moving a mannequin around and recording the movements.  I appreciate that it is a place for the arts and you are likely to see some strange sights......  Oh well it kept us entertained for a while.

We took a stroll along the river bank heading back towards the station and walking on the other side of the bridge so as to see the other view of the river.  A good evening to walk and peruse the sights.

 
Heading back to theatre land we arrived ready to have a sit down and enjoy Miss Saigon.  An exceptional show, thoroughly enjoyable and a lovely evening for the three of us to share.  

Arriving home fairly late Martin was there to pick us up and take us home.  Foot weary we all headed off to bed as we had had a great day.