Above, at the V&A museum beside the brass-rubbing knight - it's free to do brass rubbing here versus paying for it elsewhere eg at St Martin in the Fields church.
With our friend John from Geneva who came to the V&A on a turned-chilly sunday arvo in early May. And Sam dresses up in genuine props from some West End show.
More brass rubbing. Lara: "We went to the hand-on place. I liked the gold ship that had salt inside it."
the kids and their aunt Jen on the Tube, happy as larry.
Sam with an armoured glove at the V&A
Mimicking a carved face from a few centuries ago.
Some of the oldest money round, at the British Museum.
A genuine bit of doric or ionisn column from a Greek temple which the Brits robbed to fill the British Museum.
More robbed stuff - a week after this we saw the frieze of the Parthenon that Lord Elgar pulled these off of, and the copies the Greeks are having to make do with at the Acropolis Museum meantime
In Russell Square.
A show at the Planetarium at the Royal Observatory - OK but not worth the dosh, should've gone to the earlier Sun show.
Ellie: "We went to the royal Observatory, it's a musem thats really run. We went to the Planetarium. At the Planetarium we watchted a movie called We are Astrononmers."
Rosa - "we went to the moon show."
Rosa - "we went to the moon show."
A computerised cannon firing game at the Naval museum, Greenwich.
Sam: "We went to the national maritime museum were we drove a ship and shoot a cannon."
Bits and bos of gold church stuff at the V&A
Sam navigates his ship on
a computer simulated Bridge
a computer simulated Bridge
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