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.

Adventure day two

Today we got up early and had a small breakfast - pancakes wiv chocolate sauce and croissants and coffee!

And then a bit later on, we went out to get stuff done!

We went this way.....

....to the bus stop.....

And got the number 65 bus!!!

We crossed over Kew Bridge.

And got off here at Richmond Station!

We got the district and circle line to Victoria....

And then changed to the Victoria line to Pimlico!

Then we made our way out of the station and saw some funky tiles that made pictures!!

Ah, yeah, I remember that sculpture!

And then just as we got to the bus stop, our bus turned up!!!  We're getting the C10!!

They got a CD as well!!

And we're off!!

And we got off here!

We're at the Tate Britain!!

We're going to see an expedition!!!

And we got in half price with our Art Pass!!

It was a photography expedition all about the 1980s, so the coal miners strikes, Margaret Thatcher shutting down the collieries, Race riots and racially aggravated murders, and the AIDS epidemic..... very depressing stuff......

Afterwards we had a look round the gift shop (we'll show you later) and then used the facilities.  We left them a floppy disc!

And then we headed off back to the bus stop.....

.....round the corner!

We left a weathergram on the info board.

And then we got another C10 bus!!

And got off here!

We left another weathergram on this info board too!

Then we got the 360 bus!

They got a CD as well!

And we're off!!

Oh wow.....!

And we got off here!!

We're at South Kensington!

We did a bit of shopping and then came here for lunch!

We had a fizzy drink.

And then, because they didn't have our favourite pizza on the menu, we had a calzone instead!

It was yum!!

Then we went off for the next bus stop!

And we found a manhole cover on the way!

Aha!  Here we are!!

We left a weathergram here too!

BUS BINGO ALERT!!  We got the number 70!

We gave them a floppy disc

Where are we going now?

Oh!  We got off here!!

We're at Kensington High Street!!

We wandered up and down and did a bit more shopping and then came to the Underground station - which had a green hand in a planter!!

And came back to Richmond!!

Then we went to get another bus from here....

...another 65!

And THEN we got off AT THE CAYKE SHOP!!!

(we'll show you later!)

Then it was back to the bus stop....

....and another 65 bus!!

They got a CD too!

And we got off here!

And had a short walk back to our hotel!

We had a cuppa tea and had a look at the postcards we bought.

We got these at a bookshop at South Kensington.

And we got a chocolate eclair, an apricot tart and a chocolate rum sponge cayke!!!

Later on we went out for dinner.

That used to be a fire station.  It's a Ukrainian restaurant now but the Google reviews on the food aren't great..  Not eating there then.

We walked past a little canal....

And came here which had decent Google reviews.  It's supposed to be open on Saturdays until 10:30 pm.

It's not.  It's closed.  Not eating here then.....

So we walked back the way we came

And came past a pub with a beehive on the roof!

There's a close up of the big murial!

So we came here, a Thai restaurant that's open!!!

We had a glass of wine...

And we had a starter of prawn toast - they were fab!! 

Then we had a prawn Pad Thai which was seriously fab!!

We couldn't finish it all!!

We had Ganesh sitting behind us

Then it was time to head back to the hotel again

Didn't take us long!

Then we had a cuppa tea and went to bed!

Night!