Took some time uptown today to play the tourist - the original plan was to pop into the Transport Museum in Covent Garden as we have a free entry (it's one of those where you get a year's free return if you've been once - we went in August) - but when we got there, there was a HUGE queue, so we decided to skip it.
Instead, we had a wander around Covent Garden, starting with a trip to the Moomin Shop and taking in some Valentines themed sculptures (the metal tags have individual messages written on them, and they are padlocked to the frames. There were also a giant L, O, V and E).
And we spent some time watching the performance artists - always a bit of fun.
We then wandered along to Chinatown, where there were loads and loads of red lanterns out still from the Chinese New Year, so that was fun - and colourful. After that, we walked through Leicester Square down towards Trafalgar Square - it was freezing cold, so we decided to spend a little time inside the National Gallery to warm up a bit - and look at some paintings, too, of course.
Then we walked down the Mall to have a look at Buckingham Palace
And finally, walked through Green Park back towards Picadilly, where we had a brief stroll through Fortnum & Mason before hopping on the Tube back to Waterloo and so home. It was a nice day, but really, really cold. We were very impressed with this woman eating lunch on a park bench - a bit heartier than we were - and we are pretty hearty!
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