One of Lals birthday presnts last year was a Bessie free day in London. Lal could choose to go and do whatever she wanted, the entertainment centre of the universe was hers. So what did she choose to do...a west end show? shopping in Bond Street? Lunch at Claridges? No, an open top bus tour....during one of the coldest and wettest Aprils since records began! Yes it rained, yes it was cold, and yes there were annoying tourists, yes the tour guide was possibly the dullest and least informative man ever...but it was great fun. We did get off occassionally to go to National Portrait Gallery; Tate Modern (we went specifically to see Shibboleth (the big crack in the floor of the turbine room) only to discover that they were filling it in - surprisingly there were still lots of people intently staring at where the crack had been and the cement mixers that parked nearby); a very nice lunch with Rich and Emily on the south bank; a tour of the Globe theatre; Hamleys and Oxford Street in search of Green Chick Hicks (see OCD post) and a beer in very nice pub.
All in all a very pleasant Bessie-free day.
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