Our First London Weekend

The scanner has been busy remembering our first London weekend, way back in 1995.

We had been to London before but only once and that was a very brief day trip from a holiday in Great Yarmouth!

It was a 3-day visit starting on a Friday. This was our first chance to see the West End and the Christmas Lights - which were somewhat disappointing as we were expecting something like Blackpool Illuminations...

Also it started snowing on the Saturday morning and kept it up all the way through the weekend with temperatures reaching -8 at one point. But we didn't let that stop us enjoying ourselves though we gained a few pounds weight because we kept having to go into cafes for something to warm us up!

The first day we spent the afternoon in Madame Tussaud's waxworks which was a good way of staying warm and then went along the West End shops, having a good laugh at some of the prices and, where none were displayed, thinking that if you felt the need to ask...then you couldn't afford anyway!

We kept up this wide-eyed provincial wonderment all the way along Oxford Street until we reached Marble Arch then repeated it back down the other side of the road.

It had gone dark by this time and we were starting to think of something to eat which entailed walking down Regent Street towards Leicester Square and trying out one of the many steak houses there.

Then it was another session of walking slowly up shopping arcades, Bond Street, where we spotted David Attenborough and then wandered round the theatres seeing what was on and wondering which one to book for the following night.

Large Versions of the Photos: london buses, department store