Family holiday in London, day one

Today we were all put in charge of packing!!  Where are we going??

Well, first off, we went up the road.....

.....to the bus stop!

And we ended up here at Pool Valley Coach Station!!

Where are we going??!

We all got on and got a window seat!  Hurrah!

We tied a floppy disc on the seat just as we started moving and nearly fell over!!!

OOh!  Painted cable box!

We're going past the Royal Pavilion here!

Pretty....

Then it was time for jaffa cakes!

Jelly Beanie's never had a jaffa cake before.....

Neither has String Beanie!

We ate all of them!

Oh...... we're hitting a town now!

It's a piggy weather vane!!!

Crossing the River Thames!

We're here!!!  In London!!!

We had to get a bus next, so we crossed the road to get a C10

They got a CD

Those are the Battersea Power Station chimneys...... all of a sudden, we had to change buses!

Don't know why......

But we did and we got another window seat!

We crossed the river again!

That's Lambeth Palace!!!  Some Archbishop person lives in there

After a long bus ride, we got off here!!!

At the youth hostel!  Are we staying here then?

We checked in and we got a BOTTOM BUNK!!!  No climbing ladders with little legs!!!

We're on the third floor!

We're in London!!!

We went out for a walk to stretch our legs, since we'd been sitting down most of the day.

Oh wow!!!

That's amazing!  That's a mosaic, you know.

That's the whole thing.....

And then we found a train!!

Brunel Museum..... that's an interesting place, you know!

We got to play train drivers too!!!  HURRAH!

Where's the toad?

We found a big duck pond and fed them,

There's a definite quacking order here you know.  Moorhens (that little black and white one) are bottom of the heap who get scared off when the ducks turn up.  But then the ducks get scared off when the swans arrive...... definite quacking order.

It's pretty here.

We left a bookcrossing on a bench near a big pub.....

And met a cat!!

He didn't want to say hello though.

Coo, that's interesting....!

That's down river towards Canary Wharf and Tower Bridge

That's a statue of a pilgrim father.  Apparently the Mayflower set off from Rotherhithe before going to Plymouth to pick up the pilgrims to go find America

And there's a restaurant called Simplicity!  Andrea says we're eating there tonight!  Terrific, we're STARVING!!!

We started off with a glass of Chianti.  Schlurp.

We got three chiorizo sausages on Mashed potato and veggies and the best onion gravy in the entire universe!!!

(our waitress from Lithuania called it squeezed potatoes!!!!!)

For pudding we got hot chocolate mouse cake, chantilly cream and a fruit compote.

That was yummy!

What a lovely view.....

Then we went back to the hostel.....

And went to bed because we were knackered!!!

Beanie At The Manga Show, Day One.

 Last Saturday, Andrea said we were Going On A Trip!!

Brilliant!!  I made sure everything was packed!

OK, I'm ready.  What are we waiting for?!?!

We then went up the road....

For Hove Train Station!!

I live riding trains!

We went to Victoria Train Station in London..... and while Andrea was taking a pee, I tied a CD to the door!!  Hahahahaaa!!

Then we had to get the bus somewhere.  Andrea said we needed the C10 bus and because there was a diversion on around the train station, we had to ask where to find the right bus stop!!

 When we got on, I tied a weathergram to the seat in front!!!

 Here we are crossing over the Thames River.  You can just see that London Eye Millenium Wheel thing

There's that Houses of Scoundrels place where they fiddle the expense sheets.

They're good at that.

Then we ended up at Thameside Youth Hostel, at the bus stop after Rotherhithe Underground station!

We were put in room 217 on the second floor and we got a bottom bunk!

I like those, they're easier to climb into!!!

We had a look out of the window - you can just see that funny gherkin building in the distance!

There's the roof of the reception area!!!

After we dumped our bags, we decided to go for a walk before dinner.

We found a spray painted car!!

Oh that's pretty!  I don't remember those....

 We also saw some lovely pink flowers!!  Dilly would like them!!

Oh, now I remember that statue!!!

In a little park, we saw a tree stump with some mushrooms growing out of it!!!

Weird!

Then we found the Brunel Museum and my favourite train set!!

I love playing on this train!!!

WOO-WOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's got carriages at the back - I wish Bob and Dilly and Tango and George could come here - they'd like playing on this too!!

We decided to go into the Brunel Museum (it only costs £3 to get in!!) and we had tea and cake as well!

That was yummy!!

We also got a book too - Andrea says the blurb says it's a thriller-y book set in the 1850s when Brunel was alive and it's a little bit Jack-the-Ripper-ish too!

Gosh!!

Down the road, we found the Mayflower Tavern..... They do food here and we decided to come back here for dinner.

A sign on the pub wall...!

Then we got some bread from a shop and went to feed the ducks and geese -  

That was heaps of fun!!

We also saw a Dutch bridge too!

And tied another CD to a bench!!!!

Then we were getting hungry so we went back to the Mayflower Tavern and had a half pint of Lager...

And a small portion of beer battered haddock and chips and mushy peas!

That's a SMALL PORTION????  WOW!!

That was seriously yumtastik and it only cost £8.65, and that's including the drink!!!!

BARGAIN!

We then walked back to the youth hostel and had another look at this statue!

I really like that statue....!

And lost another CD on the way!!!

Gosh, I'm pooped.

Wake me in the morning..................zzzzzzzzzzzz...