We had a great day in London today. We drove to Greenwich North, parked the car and tubed to Covent Garden.

Joe and Beth loved the street entertainers and market before we grabbed a pizza hut buffet to give us energy to walk around the London Transport Museum. The picture shows them on top of one of the trams on display.

The museum was excellent (and all children are free!)and brought back loads of memories of what the tube used to be like. It was fascinating to see how the Victorians developed the tube and the funniest video quote of the day was on a small display explaining the use of escalators …. as it was all new and unusual people were scared to use the escalator and so ‘a man with a wooden leg was employed to travel up and down the escalator all day to show how easy it was’. It’s quite bizarre experiencing the values of past societies.

The weather was so great that we walked from Covent Garden along Southbank to the Tate Modern to grab a drink in the members room and sit on the balcony before tubing back to Greenwich and driving home.