Pirate Printing in London.....

Today we got up early, and ten minutes later Andrea went into a blind panic because she forgot to turn the clocks back!!!  So we had to rush up the road!

We got to the bus stop in time....

....to get a bus to the station!!!

We met our new friend Fabia and we got window seats on our train!

And we're off!

Oooo there's the Shard!!

We got off at London Bridge Station and we're going on an adventure!!

There's a train going by up there!!

Now, Andrea says we're going this way down the side of the station.  I always worry when she's navigating.....

We saw a fun statue over there!

And another one over there!!

Oh that's pretty.....

We left a CD here - we don't have many left of these at the minute, need to get a move on making some more!

There's Tower Bridge down there!!

And there's the Shard again behind us!

Yep, we're definitely close to Tower Bridge!!

Then we arrived at Queen Elizabeth Street on the hunt for a pretty manhole cover we'd been told was here.  But we couldn't find it, which was annoying.  Some more friends arrived and we did some pirate printing!!!

Fabia make a video of Andrea starting the process!!!

And we did the first test print!!!

We forgot to take a picture at the time, but this is how it came out!

We have to iron the back of it, now that it's dry, so that the print doesn't wash out in the laundry.

After everyone had a go (they printed T-shirts) we went into the Shakedown restaurant and had a hot chocolate!  It was scrumptious!  We all had a good long natter too, it was fun!

This is the place - they didn't have any business cards though, which was annoying.

Then we all waved goodbye and separated up for the rest of the day.  We came down to this bus stop.

BUS BINGO ALERT!!! We got the number 42 bus!!

We spotted a pretty fence on the other side of the road!

And then we were off - crossing Tower Bridge by bus!!!  Hurrah!

This is SOOOOO fun!!

And there's the Tower of London on the other side!!

You can see the Shard behind, too!

We decided to get off at this stop because we were getting hungry.....

So we wandered towards the Tower entrance and left a floppy disc on the bike.

It's so pretty.....

That's City Hall over there, that round building.

We're having lunch here!!!

Hurrah!!

We spotted some textile art on the wall.

Ahhh...... we got a fizzy drink.

And a burger and fries!  YUMMMM!!

After lunch we used the facilities and left them a god card.  Then we washed our paws carefully.

And then we were back off on our adventures.

First we went back to the bus stop we got off at.

We put a light card on the information board!

BUS BINGO ALERT!  We got the number 78!

And we're off!!

And we got off here at Liverpool Street Station.

We tied another light card here.....

We had a bit of a walk up the road and spotted this grafitti.

Ah, here we are!!  Spitalfield Market!!

There's the goat statue!

And elephants!!

We love these elephants!

They're fun!

We left a god card on this plant.....

And went past here.  

And spotted some funky shoes!!

There's that church we spotted from the other end of the street.

They got a god card too

OH!!!  That's a funky manhole cover!!!  Wow!!!

Right behind the church!!

we put another god card here....

And continued down the road spotting manhole covers!!

Oh that's a nice one!

Oooo

Meh, bit ordinary.

OH! That's more like it!!

Oh that's pretty too!

Oh we need to come down here for pirate printing!

Then we went back the way we came, back to Spitalfields Market.

There's a faded advert on that building.

we found another elephant!

Oh!  .....oops......

It's been signed...!

There's the Gherkin.

And there's our bus stop!

we stuck a light card in the info board again.

BUS BINGO ALERT!!!  It's the 205!

they got a light card too!

And we're off!

More grafitti!

A Metropolitan cattle trough!!  They got cows in the middle of London??!!?!

Oh that's pretty

And finally we got off here!!!

St Pancras Station....!

It's time to go home!

We went past Fortnum and Masons again (we'll show you later!)

And used the facilties.  Then washed out paws carefully....

Our train gets here in ten minutes!  Excellent!!

And we're off!!

Here we are crossing Blackfriars Bridge!

And there's the shard again!

We're going over Borough Market now (apologies for the overheard conversation....!!)

There's the South Downs over there!

Finally back at Brighton!!

Straight over to the bus stop.....

.....getting off here!!!  Then we just had to whizz down the road home!

We got some lime curd and almond butter.... should be interesting!!

Oh what a fun day out!!!