Back in London

Well the last leg began where the adventure started, and we furiously tried to cram in all the last minute things I couldn't do last time.

On the advice of Smee and Pooey, I bought and ate a Waitrose roast chickent. It was good, but not enough to make me want to eat the whole thing.

I met up with Emichang and we had pho (for her) and bun bo hue (for me). Viet food in London continues to disappoint.

I really like the works of John Singer Sargent and I really regretted that in Great European Trip 2004-5 I didn't purchase the catalogue to an exhibition because it was bulky and I'd already done some serious damage with books. But I've always really regretted it. Really. So I went to Tate Britain to find it again! It wasn't there anymore (or in any other bookshops I checked - boo) but there was a really good Millais exhibition! Pretty much all his well-known works were in there. In fact, Lydia was put-out because his famous Ophelia painting was in the exhibition (where you had to pay to get in). Since I had arrived early and had to be evacuated during a fire alarm (it was sooooo cold), we considered dirtying her in. But we didn't.

We also then met up with Pooey, Grand Empress Katie, Bao and Ray, and two of Pooey's friends for dinner and then Avenue Q. Avenue Q rocks! Kind of like if the characters of Sesame Street were followed into a post-college life, we're of the right age to appreciate all the jokes, format and various references! Watch this clip of song *It Sucks To Be Me* and *Special* from Royal Variety performance.http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sxqz7-CGIc4

I also posted back 7kg worth of books. It set me back £40. Now before you all have heart attacks, I nearly got gypped into paying £100. It was only my knowledge that students get a discount for posting books that got me the reduced price.

Dirty Roy then joined us for goodbye drinks on Friday night. My mojito was good, but too much ice - it kept melting all over the table.

Saturday we finally made it to Borough Markets for lunch and portugese tarts and then scooted over to Kings Cross Station to visit Platform 9 3/4 before heading to dinner with Cousin Susan and Anthony.