Pirate printing and food.....!

We set off early today, without doing our usual food shopping!!

We're going somewhere!!!

Got a window seat on the train - excellent!!

And we're off!

Ooo, there's the Battersea Power Station chimneys over there!!

We're crossing the Thames!!

AHA!!  Now then, we're getting a bus now......

Here's our stop!

And we didn't have to wait long either!!!  BUS BINGO ALERT!!  It's the C1!

They got a CD tied to the hand rail!

Oh that's pretty!

Oooo!

Those town houses are rather posh.....

And there's Horrids!!!

We got off here at South Kensington!  We're meeting up with someone but we're a bit early.  But we need to do a little reccie trip to make sure we go the right direction..... and while we were doing that, we accidentally found Jef who we're meeting up with!!

We walked down to Onslow Square to do some pirate printing (we'll show you the result later!) and thought we'd do one manhole cover, but there turned out to be a whole bunch of them!

This is the one we knew about already

And that's the one we printed from.

After that we were getting a bit peckish so we went back to South Kensington to find somewhere to eat.

We all got a brunch type meal - we got eggs benedict on toast with bacon, with a watermelon, pomegranite and something drink with a sprig of mint in.  It was yummy!

After a good long chat, we decided to walk over to the V&A museum for a proper look round.  I think we did the entire ground floor, plus the courtyard plus the cafe at the back!!!  We stopped for coffee and cayke and suddenly heard live music .... turns out a little 10 year old girl in a sparkly Mickey Mouse hat started playing classical music (completely from memory!) and absolutely professional concert standard!  It was brilliant!!  She got a very loud round of applause!!

Later on, we walked up to Hyde Park and I left a CD on the railing!

And we walked round the Serpentine and had an icecream too.  We had to eat it quickly because it was melting, so there's no photographs of that!

It's pretty here.....

We sat and watched the ducks for a while too!

All of a sudden it was half past five and we needed to head home!  So we walked down to Hyde Park Corner and got the 52 bus..... BUS BINGO ALERT!!!

And ended back at Victoria Station!

And our train was waiting for us!  Oh what a fab day out!!!

And then we left for home....

Crossed over the Thames

Love this bit....

And back at Hove!

We found a little fairy tree on the way back too

See?!

Good innit?!?!

Gotta be careful in my neighbourhood.  You could get hexxed.

That's our pirate printing from today.

An Expedition and Christmas sightseeing

Andrea got me up silly early today and took me out..... it was really windy and cold, too!!

We ended up at the train station!!  Are we going somewhere?

We are!!!  The train was silly busy so we didn't get any photos but we're in London!  And that's our bus stop down there....!

And that's our bus just arriving!!  QUICK!  RUN!!!

It's the C1 bus!!

We gave them a floppy disc!

And we're off!!

OOOooo!!  All the shops have their Christmas decorations up!!

They're pretty!

That's Sloane Square, with lots of fairy lights in all the trees!

Oh wow!

So pretty....!

That's a posh hotel there.

Oh wow!!

It's Horrids!!

They've done tons and tons of decorating down here!!

We got off here at the Victoria and Albert Museum!

we left another floppy disc here.....

We're going to see an expedition called The Great Mughals.  They're Indian.

It's about the artists and goldsmiths back in the time of the Taj Mahal.

We had a bit of time to spare before the museum opened so we left a CD here.

A few minutes later, we got in..... and saw a weird neon light thing!

Then we bought our ticket and went off to the expedition.... those are pretty mosaics!

Aha, down here!

We took loads of pictures here.....!

Interesting lighting on the floor!

That's made from Agate stone......

They had a video of the Taj Mahal too!

And ceramics....

Including tiles...... plus loads more.  We'll make another post with all the pictures we took!

After visiting one of the gift shops (we'll show you later) we borrowed the facilities and left a CD on the door!  Then we washed our paws carefully.

On the way to the main gift shop we stopped at a smaller exhibition which had some really weird shoes in it!!

REALLY weird!!

Then we went back to the main hall and saw Dale Chihuly's chanderlier.

And then went out into the sunshine!  That was a really good expedition!!

We went this way....

Towards South Kensington Station.

We found another manhole cover!

And a Christmas tree!!

Good, innit?!

I found another relative!!!

I want that phone...!!

By now we were ravenously hungry so we came here for lunch!

We had a fizzy drink to start....

And a Nettuno pizza which was scrumptious!!!

After lunch we came to this bus stop to continue our Bus Bingo game.

First we got the number 360!

we gave them a CD!

And we're off!!

That's the Natural History Museum over there!!

We got off here, at the last stop!  That's the Royal Albert Hall over there!!

We need to go this way now

And cross the road - that's the Prince Albert Memorial thingy in Hyde Park

Aha - there's our bus stop!

we left a floppy disc here...

And then got the Bus 52!

They got a CD too!

OH!!!  That's the Household Cavalry!!!  They're the ones in fancy uniform that ride around on horseback in all those Royal Parade things!!

OH!  And a polar bear!!

More pretty decorations.....

We got off here at Hyde Park Corner.

And then got the number 9.  This one was heaving busy so we didn't get any photos.

We got off here at the Royal Academy.... that's Burlington Arcade there.

We decided to walk up Bond Street to see the decorations - we'll put highlights in here but do a separate post with all the pictures in.

Oh!!  That's a fun tea service!

That's Tiffany's

oh wowzers!

Oh gosh, this is fun!

WOW!!!  That's the Cartier shop!

OOOOOoooo!

Oh this is well fun!

GASP!!!

MORE GASP!!

We left a floppy disc here, this display needed a bit of help.

They got parrots here!!

Then we walked back towards Piccadilly.

Posh innit?!

And here's our bus stop!

Now we're getting the number 38!

They got a CD too!

We're coming towards The Ritz now....

And we got off here, at Victoria station..... it's time to do home!

Our train was waiting for us.... there's Battersea Power Station over there!

We're crossing the Thames!

And we're home!!

We got the last bus of the day

And got off at the last stop!

We got some nommy Bis Kwits

And some postcards.

That was a brilliant expedition....

We got some new woodblocks too

And Andrea got some more bubble bars.  She's weird that way.

We opened out advent calendars (finally!)

Ooooo!

That's today's package!!

It's a tea bag!  Let's have a cuppa!

We also got this one as well.

What a fun day out!!