We spent the day at National Gallery. It's a large art museum that houses paintings by artists like Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Monet (his famous Japanese bridge painting is there), Van Gogh (his famous sunflowers are there), Degas, Rembrandt and other artists I'm not familiar with. I wasn't allowed to take photos but suffice to say it was (as all museums in London seem to be), really grand. And I've always wanted to see Van Gogh's sunflowers in person:)
Prior to heading to National Gallery, we hung around Trafalgar Square for a bit. They're right beside each other, so you can visit both in the same day. Have I mentioned that it's sort of thrilling to visit places mentioned in Monopoly?
That's about all it was though - a place from Monopoly. With the tall monument of Admiral Nelson.
Maybe I'm not much of a monument person.
This is the snowglobe everyone seemed to be raving about.
It didn't look very magical when I saw it though.
We had dinner at Wong Kei. Apparently it's a tourist thing to go there and experience cheap Chinese food with terrible service. (Why it is a thing to purposely go and experience terrible service, I don't know. Mum insisted on letting us experience it though.)
But anyway, according to Mum, it's changed since the last time she went.
Service isn't great but they don't scream at you like they apparently did last time and food isn't cheap - would've been the same price as Jamie's the day before if we hadn't ordered dessert in that meal. And the food was extremely mediocre and not flavoursome. I doubt I shall ever return.
But bad food didn't really matter to me that day because I wasn't going to let anything ruin the event I'd been looking forward to doing ever since I was 13 - watching Les Mis live!
So after dinner, we headed (I hopped, skipped, jumped, and amused my family members) to Queen's Theatre to watch Les Miserables, which I previously blogged about here. And it was wonderful:)
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