doing the tourist thing in London

Wednesday 27th July
Wow how fast time is going by.............  We have been here for nearly a week now and will have to move from this mooring tomorrow.   We plan to take Merlot to Camden and see if we can get a mooring there - will be lucky as there are only about 6 spots available and are usually taken.  Plan B will be to go back to Little Venice and moore there for a week or until we have had enough of the big smoke.

We have been reasonably busy doing some of the tourist things.   We found out if you purchase a train ticket to the value of around 3 pounds, you get "two for one"  to many of London's attractions.
We have been to the London Dungeon - not bad but not amazing,  had a trip on the London City boat which was nice and took three hours and visited the Aquarium -  all for half price...Yea!!!!!!!!!   We plan to do the London Eye and go to a show in the west end.
A few pics of London stuff .....

 Trev you are being closely followed!!!  Oh its ok, its only the stone man in Little Venice.

 Trev bonding with another stone man - I think he has taken a shine to these blokes - they don't answer back Lol

 A rather nice (if I say so myself) pic of  the river with Westminster, Big Ben and London buses on Westminster bridge.

 Had to put the London Eye in .......

 Paying respect to the fighter pilots who gave their lives  in the war.

 Behind the three glass buildings,  you can just see part of a building under construction.  It will be the tallest building in Europe, housing shops, restaurants, offices and apartments (for the very rich).  It will be called the Shard and will definitely look like a shard of glass pointing towards the sky - 1016 feet on completion.

 The pineapple - this was built by the former Mayor of London - Ken Livingston (ironically just after he promised not to waste any London money), this - we were told - cost 63 million pounds!!!!!!!!!!  He had an apartment right at the top and now Borris, the current Mayor resides there.

 Good old Tower Bridge - nothing much I have to say about that..

Well other than doing a LOT of walking, that's about it for now.   (OH we have not caught anything in our crayfish trap........  I do think the water is too clean here and with all the weed growing on the water, I don't think much survives without sunlight.    We shall see what happens when we move - I will keep the faith!!!!
To end, Merlot has become sum-what of a tourist attraction,  Sid the skelington (skeleton) has had his photo taken and is quite the celebrity around here  

On a funnier note - A lady on the boat next to ours, kept talking to Sid thinking it was Trev ..........