Relaxing and Enjoying London

This morning was just like a normal Saturday morning at home - (except it's Sunday!). We left the boys to relax in the apartment and wandered down to the local Farmers Market, which is just like ours, even the same size and in the grounds of a school, except the food definitely had a more English bent. We had a wander, a sample, bought some food to cook this evening, - English sausages, fresh dug spuds and purple broccoli - and also one each of a lot of lovely looking cakes and Cornish pasties so we can have a sample -  had a coffee at the local bakery and wandered back to the apartment. We have decided to have a bit more of a relaxing day today as yesterday was pretty busy - we went into London City and Madame Tussauds. When we got to M.T's the queue once again was very long - 3 and a half hours wait. We blanched at that of course so a tip from the staff was to go into the City, buy your tickets there (the queue was much shorter if you had pre-purchased your tickets) and come back after 3.30pm when things had quietened down a bit. We took this advice and caught the underground into Trafalgar Square, sussed out our tickets and took a trip to one of the more obscure sites - The Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garrett. What a funny place, obviously the site of an old hospital theatre in the attic of an old building, there were graphic displays of the old ways of treating illness and injury and a talk on how amputations were performed. A bit of an eye watering demo. And the thing with these more weird places is they have no queues so we are making a point of searching them out. Madame Tussauds, of course very touristy, was very well done and the boys really enjoyed it.
There was a big football match on yesterday afternoon, a semi-final between Chelsea and Aston Villa, so the hooligans were out in force in the city and the police had closed a couple of pubs and were on the streets in numbers when we were coming home. In the absence of any rugby the boys have taken to watching the football on T.V. Talk about desperate!
We have sussed out the buses and the underground and more or less got a grip on where things are so we are back into the City this afternoon to catch a matinee show.
The sun is shining and although the days are cool around the edges are warm enough in the middle. We have certainly be lucky with the weather on our trip - it's been fantastic. More soon...