London

• Ally and I are reaquainted. I stay with her in North Acton with Eilean, Teresa and Helen.
• Lunch with Pippa to meet Rob, then walk in Hyde Park and visit Harrods.
• Go drinking at an Irish Pub with Colleen and co. Guiness!
• Visit Kew Gardens with Colleen (Victorian greenhouses), followed by a braai and X Files at her place. Oldest pot plant in world (1700s) is SA.
• My first solo journey on the "tube" to visit the British National Museum to see ancient statues and relics - including Egyptian mummies.
• Walk through Soho.
• Imperial War museum (trench and blitz experience for World Wars)
• Museum of the Moving Image - a fascinating history of cinema and television, even video games.
• Open air bus tour (views of Big Ben, Parliament Building, London Tower and Bridge, Westminster Abby, Fleet Street, HMR Belfast, The Bank of England, Trafalgar Square)
  Visit to St Pauls and Buckingham Palace
• Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre
• Pepsi Trocadero - entertainment complex of the future
• London Dungeon - torture, punishment, and Jack the Ripper - sit in car, plunged into darkness, lifted up , face firing squad, then whoosh down water slide.
• The Hilton for a night of dinner and dancing with Ally
• Speaker's Corner at Hyde Park - some so serious, others taking piss. Black brothers talking racism, other topics were battle of sexes etc.
• Monument - tower monument to the Great Fire of london - 311 stairs to a wonderful view
  "Shakespear's Globe Theatre" - attempt
• Porchester Turkish Baths (steam rooms, jacuzzi, sauna and cold plunge pool)
• Science Museum
• Museum of Natural History
• Dock Road train to Greenwich - no driver - to see the gardens and the Observatory - sunburnt! Jump from east to west instantly.
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Theatre museum
• Visit Ally's aunt, Carol. Day trip to Stratford Upon Avon to see Shakespeare's birth place.
• Walk in Regent park
• Nearly arrested for making a bomb threat while making a phone call.
• The Importance of being Oscar (Savoy Theatre) One man show with big bits out of all his book, poems and plays. Played multiple parts. How did he remember the words?
• Waggamamas (Japanese noodle bar with computerised ordering and green tea to finish off)
• Sat in the Royal Courts listening to an undue leniency case for professional bank robbers - bewigged!
• Miss Saigon
• Starting to really think about my trips - visit travel agent
• Delicious farewell dinner and romantic goodbye with Ally.