On Saturday we decided to visit St James' Park, in hope of spotting some squirrels that we had heard so much about. It wasn't the nicest of days, but the park was beautiful. Sure enough we saw plenty of squirrels, some even chased us!!! St James' Park is pretty much right next to Buckingham Palace and runs almost down to Trafalgar Square.
We grabbed some lunch and ate it in Trafalgar Square, although the dark rainclouds and pigeons soon forced us indoors to the National Art Gallery. The gallery is massive and it will take at least 5-6 visits to see everything. So on Saturday we limited ourselves to Leonardo, Raphael, a little Michaelangelo and some Picasso. (Tim was mainly interested in the ninja turtles). While neither of us know much about art, it is still a fascinating place to visit, and we actually learned quite a lot!
The weather has been pretty poor here for the last week or so; it doesn't feel like summer is coming any time soon! However, this has alerted us to a popular British habit of walking round with an umbrella up even if its not actually raining. If it's threatening to rain, or if it was raining half an hour ago, the umbrella must stay up!!! We're sure it's done just to piss people off by blocking the already crowded footpaths.
St James' Park
View of Buckingham
Palace from the park
Squirrel up a tree
Park again
Squirrel attacking
Trafalgar Square
The National Gallery
at Trafalgar Square
Buckingham
Palace
The Royal Standard
flying at the Palace
showing Liz was home
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