Wax Museum

Ella with Mary Queen of Scots
Ella with Julia Roberts
Ella with the fairies

I was so disappointed with our visit to Madame Tussauds today. Apart from having to take out a bank loan to pay for the tickets the crowds were unbelievable. We queued for almost 2 hours to get in, then when we finally got in I was surprised to see the expected visit time was only 1.5 hours. I planned to spend most of the afternoon there but found the masses of people was really giving me the sh*ts and we cut our visit short because it was so hard to see things with 50 million other people hanging around. But on a lighter note the wax figures are amazing, so lifelike. I mistook wax figures for real people a couple of times.

Afterwards we went for a walk in nearby Regent’s Park; it was such a beautiful day today. But then we made the mistake of spotting the London Zoo and foolishly thinking it might be a reasonable price to enter but fat chance. We weren’t prepared to outlay another small fortune to go to the zoo.

Yesterday we visited the Science Museum which was fantastic and FREE!!! The crowds were massive for this museum too; in fact when we came out of the tube station and walked onto the footpath we thought we were walking along with the pedestrians but it was actually the museum queue which extended a block down the road into the next street but it did move fairly quickly. London has some great museums which are free which makes a nice change.