We went wandering around London today. Walked through the lovely Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. Came across swans, squirrels and Alexandrine parrots.
Had a hot drink in the lovely cafe and the Victoria and Albert Museum
Made our way down to the Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner. It was a simple but significant monument. It listed all the names of towns and suburbs that Australian soldiers had come from to join the services. We laid our little Remembrance Cross for Eric Swanson Frost.
We then made our way over to the British Museum to meet one of Bill's online trench map buddies- I should not leave Bill in charge- it was the British Library where we supposed to meet! Of course he had written nothing down ( his father Jim would have been horrified at the lack of planning) and then we couldn't connect to wifi to look up where we actually needed to be. Eventually we did make it to where we needed to be a few minutes late. While the boys talked trench maps and grid references I went to see an exhibition on the Anglo Saxons and saw some amazing old manuscripts, bibles, artifacts and the Doomsday Book! Another great day in London.
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