London

Bored. Nothing else to do but head up to London. It is about a 2 hour train trip from Southampton to London although a breakdown caused all the trains to be delayed (my experiences with UK public transport have so far not been the best)! Anyway first stop was Selfridges. You see, Peter has this special glass which only he is allowed to drink out of (Jules has one too) after unsuccessfully trying to use Peter's glass in the previous week he decided it was hightime for me to get my own glass. So we stopped at Selfridges for lunch and then glass shopping. Once that was out of the way Peter made us wall all the way to Harrods (via the Apple store....) where I had to buy something for my aunt.

On our way to Harrod's we walked via the new Australian War Memorial which is in the park chock full of Duke of Wellington memorials (not quite sure of the proper park name) - but it is near the Hyde Park corner roundabout. The memorial has the names of all the Australian towns that soldiers were recruited from for WWI. I tried unsuccessfully to find Uralla (although I did find Urala, but that was not a spelling mistake as I first thought). Took some photos and then continued onto Harrods.

With the afternoon behind us we headed over to Canary Wharf. Previously an industrial area over the past decade it has been transformed into swanky offices and apartments and it is the place Jules and Peter want to live if they ever move to London. It was pretty funky - nice and close to the city, a number of nice bars and restaurants and pretty good public transport connections I can see why they were taken with the idea of living there. We had a fairly average dinner at a French themed restaurant (people can still smoke in restaurants here which is awful!) and then went to the cinema to see Meet the Fockers (it was pretty good). Caught the tube back to London Waterloo for our train to Southampton. Again rail problems had delayed the trains and we did not get back here until 2:30 in the morning!



Jules & Peter


A nice white building in the same park as the war memorial (it is some hospital I think.


Tower of London at night.