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The London Eye & Along the South Bank | We took the day out! It started with the idea for a trip to the theatre and ended up with a a whole day in town, exploring the the South Bank before enjoying a musical. |
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| | | It started out with a perfectly simple “Dad, can we go to see the Queen musical in London, please?”
Now, I’ve got to be honest, I don’t like London or, more precisely I don’t like cities, they are noisy, dirty and crowded. On the other hand they cannot be considered to be all bad, even by this country boy, they do have some good things to enjoy. A dash into the city, rush to the theatre and the back home sounded like perfect hell to me so I set about making a day trip of it, culminating in an evening enjoying an excellent show at the theatre. | Museums? Art Galleries? The zoo? Shopping??? No chance! Can you imagine hours traipsing around the shops then fighting with a dozen shopping bags in the confines of the theatre? No, it had to be something a little different, maybe a little new that the family would enjoy. | My daughter was studying Shakespeare for her exams, I had suffered annoying audio adverts for the London Eye while at Gatwick airport for ages. It seemed only reasonable that we take a trip to the South Bank. | A good decision! A stroll down from the mainline rail station, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament and across the bridge to the South Bank. The London Eye beckoned. A word of warning, if you want to visit the London Eye tomorrow, book it last week. I queued for an hour, just to buy the tickets! Then it was a three hour wait before we could go up! You might consider taking your trip outside the weekends and/or the school holidays. | While we waited we took a long stroll along the South Bank, enjoying the street artists, the views and the Wobbly Bridge before spending an hour in The Globe, Will’s old stamping ground, it would seem. I tried to read a bit of Shakespeare as a lad but could make neither head nor tail of it. The guide explained to the enthralled audience that our Bill, wrote each line three times, once in the language of the ‘gentry’, once in the language of the ‘middle classes’ and finally in in the language of the riff raff standing in the pit. Was he telling porky pies? Could this have been the reason that I missed to pleasure of reading the Bard as a lad? | We wandered back to the London Eye just in time to only have to queue for 30 minutes for our ride! | It was well worth the wait - loads of pix and wonderful views across the city as dusk descended. | Then it was time for the hike to theatre land and something to eat. I think the family were a little surprised that I managed to find my way about but I did work in the area for a couple of years as a lad <G> | It was a great day out! If you are looking for something just a little different, I suggest you give it a try. | Most of all, enjoy yourselves. |
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