Visit to London

Last week we spent four nights in central London, staying in London School of Economics accommodation during the students' Easter vacation (see photo). We met up with our nephew Steven and his 14 month old daughter Ellie and enjoyed fish and chips together in a riverside pub at Kingston on Thames. We'd never met Ellie before but she is a lovely little girl who smiled most of the four hours we were together (see photo). We also met our son Ben one evening after work and had a meal together in a very smart Thai restaurant. Afterwards he took us up to the 10th floor of his office block in the City where we had a fine view over the dome of St Paul's Cathedral with the big wheel of the London Eye in the background. The rest of the time we explored London and its many museums and art galleries. Our favourite was the relatively new Guildhall Art Gallery which has the remains of a 2000 year old Roman amphitheatre underneath it, only discovered during building work in 1999. Both art gallery and amphitheatre are open to the public for the princely sum of £2.50 (concessions £1) or free after 15.30 hours. Well worth a visit we agreed as we posed with William Shakespeare outside afterwards.