May's here!!!

Hi everyone!

May's FINALLY here! .... and we didn't waste any time - we were out and about taking in the sights! Here are some photos we took.

This is outside Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament - we were on our way to Tate Britain (which is different to Tate Modern!)... it has lots of the artwork of the most famous British painters - but we didn't know any of them! :-)


This is Trafalgar Square -and a view of the National Gallery - this has many artworks from the most famous artists - Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael etc... it is very impressive - we only had time to view the artwork from the Italian Renaissance period! We'll be back for sure!


This was taken after we 'finished' at the National Gallery - already dark! - background is faint view of Nelson's column - who led the British fleet at the Battle of... you guessed it... Trafalgar!


On the way home, we chanced upon the opening of the open air ice-skating rink at Summerset House (the home of Queen Victoria)... we have tickets to skate there in early January when some of our friends are over from Perth!! We also got free food and free drinks - not sure whether we were supposed to get it,... but we were in there and people offered!!



More pictures to come in the next post...