Day 40 - 20 September - London

We started the day with a walk to the British Museum - it's only about a 15 minute walk from where we're staying.  This is an amazing place; we could have spent days here and still not have seen everything.  However, we did manage to see the stuff that's of particular interest to us - their display about the Sutton Hoo ship, and other displays about historical England - particularly their Roman and Anglo-Saxon stuff, plus also a small but interesting (and very hard to find!!) display about the German view of WW1.  We also looked briefly at a number of the other displays. I don't have any photos - all the really interesting things are behind glass.

We then caught the open top bus to Trafalgar Square.  There was a large police presence here and we discovered it was because the idiots of the "England Defence League" were having a protest about wanting to kill all the Muslims.  We walked towards Westminster and discovered the same morons protesting around there as well.  However, we found our way past them.  

We also had to find our way around the huge Open House queues - we had no idea that this was on until we started seeing the queues and signs.  Basically it means that this weekend there are around 800 separate free events on in London, mostly giving free access to architecturally interesting buildings, walks and talks.   Some of the queues were enormous; I saw one that was at least 250 metres long.

We then decided to go to the Churchill War Rooms.  There was quite a queue here too, but it was moving relatively quickly.  I was surprised when we got near to the top of the queue to discover that unlike some other Imperial War Museum sites, this doesn't have free entry.  And in fact the price is quite significant - £17.50 each.  However we decided to go ahead anyway and it was absolutely worth it.  I had no idea that the tour was so detailed, and more than that there is also a Churchill Museum which is an amazing museum covering anything you'd want to know about Churchill.  We spent a long time here.

After this we walked around to Westminster for a good (external) view of the Abbey, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament etc.  By this time most of the attractions were closing, and we decided to make our way home.

We're staying in North Gower Street in London, but the building is on the corner and our room actually overlooks Drummond Street.  Drummond Street is known for the number of Indian restaurants in the street and tonight we decided to try one of them.  We went to one called Taste of India and all I can say is wow - this was just an excellent meal.