Frightening Sha in London

We went to London today! We started off at Buckingham Palace and saw the Queen's mail being delivered by horse drawn coaches. We then ambled through Green Park to jump on the tube to take us to Oxford Road. Sha spotted an interesting shop or two :) We finally ended up at the British Museum to find out how many objects had been stolen by the British during the destruction of the Old Summer Palace. Strangely enough there were not many signs giving us this sort of information.

After seeing a few mummies we headed off towards Pollock's Toy Museum. Sha was expected some "cute, pink dolls", but ended up rather scared and shocked. The "toys" were old. Very old. There were paper cranes made by children in hospital in Hiroshima. "The belief is that if you make a thousand cranes your will will come true" - it didn't say what their wish was. There was also an interesting "Jack and Jill Put on Uniform" where "thousands of Jills are Land Girls today. Some are helping in the dairies, others in the fields ..."

We continued on to Baker Street to see the Sherlock Holmes museum. That was fun!

... and then back ... to have a great dinner with Emma, watch the TV with Alexander and then amble back (via the pub) to our hotel. Back to Australia tomorrow!