Today we got up silly early because Andrea says we're going somewhere!!
We're getting a coach!!!
It turned up on time and we headed off!!
We went past the Royal Pavillion
We arrived at Gatwick Airport and had a ten minute wait before we headed off..... and then a really bad tempered fella tried getting on the coach and got arsey with the driver. So the driver refused him travel and went to get the Airport Police!!! The bad tempered man disappeared and we left about 20 minutes late.
But we had a Panno Shoko Lah to cheer us up!!!
AND some Jaffa cakes!!!
YUM!!
Then we arrived at Heathrow Airport....
Sky...!!
More Sky!!
There's some interesting greens in there
We saw some bloo plarks too!!
And some statues!!
And then we arrived at Victoria Coach station - and only 10 minutes late, so the driver made up a bit of time! Yippee!!
So then we headed off - where are we going Jeeves?
AHA! First bus stop of the day!
BUS BINGO ALERT!!! We got the C10 bus!
They got a magic card!
We went through Pimlico
Past the weird statue!!
And got off here!
We're going to see an expedition!!! Never heard of this guy though.
So we got our ticket (half price on our Art Pass!) and went up to the first floor!
Oh wow!!! Hurvin is a British artist whose parents came over from the Caribbean on the Windrush scheme so his paintings are a mix of British life and Caribbean island life, and also makes reference to the African slave trade too.
He works in acrylic paints, very colourful!
Interesting style too!!
And also some very BIG paintings!!!
We really enjoyed this expedition!!
We had a rummage through the gift shop (we'll show you later) and then used the facilities...
And then it was time to go for lunch!
We came down to this bus stop and waited for ages and ages and no bus came....
So we walked back to THIS bus stop.....
And our bus came!!! BUS BINGO ALERT!! It's the 360 bus!!
they got a tag.
And we got off here at South Kensington!!
We're having lunch here!!
We got a fizzy drink!
And a Fiorentina pizza. We meant to get the Napolitina pizza with capers and anchovies but Andrea asked for this instead, with spinach and a fried egg. Bit it was still yummy though!!!
Then it was time to head off....
We left another tag here .......
Oo-er.... looks a bit squiffy!!
BUS BINGO ALERT!! It's the number 70!
They're got a magic card!
Where are we going?
Ooo posh houses!
We got off at the Royal Albert Hall, crossed the road and came to this bus stop....
And we got the number 52!!
They got a magic card as well!!
And we're going past Hyde Park now...
And we eventually got off here, after getting through a bit of a traffic jam!!
We're getting another bus from here!!!
BUS BINGO ALERT!!!! We got the number 14!!
And another magic card!
We're going SHOPPING!!!!!
We had a good nose around Fortums and took a picture of all the honey jars for our Bear readers!
Enjoy!!
After we did our shopping (we'll show you later!) we headed off to the bus stop!
YAY!!! We got the number 19!!
They got a magic card too!!
Oooo, posh chocolate shop!!
And we got off here at Constitution Hill.....
And got a number 38 bus!
They got a tag!
And we got off here - it's nearly time to go home!!!
We used the facilities and left a beer mat on the door!
And then we had to walk in the rain....
......crossing the road half way down........
.....back to the coach station!!
There's our coach!!!
We all got on and left bang on time!
Oh hang on!!! What are going this way for??
We're going up towards Grosvenor Gardens instead of the other way through Pimlico!!
There's my favourite sculpture!
We're going into Knightsbridge now - we were down this neck of the woods at lunchtime!!!
There's Horrids!!
Oh wow! That's South Kensington down there!!!
And there's the Natural History Museum!
We had our other Panno Schoko Lah on the way....
And then we went over the Hammersmith Flyover....!
Still lots of ominous clouds though!
And we arrived at Heathrow Airport!
And we got our Jaffa cakes out!!
YUMM!!!
And then we headed off...!
We saw dancing fountains!!!!
And we arrived at Gatwick Airport!
And finally we arrived in Brighton! That's all that's left of the West Pier. We don't think that'll be there much longer....
And we got dropped off here! We're home!!
We got some postcards.....
And some posh coffee!!
OOOoooo!!! What's this??!
Thick cut Marmalade!! We can have Paddington Sammiches!!!
AND we got a load of Fortnums tissue paper to print on!!
Oh what a fun day out!!!
