Back in London town

We leave for Scotland tomorrow so i thought i better catch you all up on our time in London the past few days. We got back to Nell & Simon's place at about lunch time on Monday and were relieved to finally have a nice hot shower after our past 3 days of either staying somewhere with no shower at all or having the option of boiling hot/freezing cold water. We spent that afternoon unpacking and relaxing.
On Tuesday we met up with Lisa who Ewen used to work with at Centrelink. we went to the Angel pub in Islington for lunch. After that we did a little shopping in Islington and i got another jumper to add to my small winter collection of clothes.
On Wednesday we went to Camden market. We walked along the canal from Islington to get there and it was a really nice walk. i hadn't realised there were houseboats here in London but there are. you could easily have thought you were in Amsterdam walking along the canal past dozens of house boats. they were a lot narrower than the ones in Amsterdam but still definitely house boats that people live in. The market was amazing i loved it. We spent about 4 hours walking around the different sections, the highlight was the Rave shop which was 3 levels of rave gear. they even had dancing platforms up above the customers on the top floor with a dancer on each platform and music pounding away just like in a nightclub, i have no idea how the people work in there everyday, they must wear earplugs.
On Thursday James arrived so we were up early to meet him at the train station and then spent most of the day showing him around to some of the sights. we went to the Tower bridge, had a look at the outside of HMS Belfast (too expensive to go on board), Borough market, Buckingham Palace (from the outside, its only open to tourists in summer). we also saw the changing of the guard which wasn't as impressive as i thought it would be. We did get to see three different types of guards though. I'm not sure of the correct names for each group but i will describe them as blue ones, fuzzy hat ones and gold hat ones. The amount of people was crazy and because we only got there just as it arrived we didn't get to see much but still managed to get some good photos. That night we had some drinks at Filthy MacNastys pub and then dinner at a different pub.
On Friday we met up with Andrew at the National gallery in Trafalgar Square (which they were beginning to fence off in preparation for putting up the Christmas decorations i cannot wait to see those!!!) and he gave us lots of ideas for places to go in Scotland then he had to go back to work. We had a quick walk around the gallery and then went to Covent Garden for lunch and a little bit of shopping. After that we wen to the British Museum which was good, we got some great photos of some of the different things on display. Once we had all achieved museum fatigue we walked to Leicester square and went to the movies, we saw Easy A which was OK. it had some funny parts but wasn't as good as i thought it would be. Then we went to a pub for dinner and drinks.
And that brings me to today which is Saturday. We spent most of today at Portabello market in Notting Hill. this is the second time me and Ewen have been there but I'm thinking i still want to go to back once more before we fly home. This time i got a couple of prints, one of a pug dog which is very cute. I also got a necklace, the same one i used to have years ago and loved and was devastated when it broke so i was very happy to find the same one today! I also got a couple of cheapo tourist magnets to add to my massive collection.

*I have run out of space on my blog to add in photos but i purchased more space, it's going to take a couple of days to go through though so keep checking back for all my photos from the past week*