Dali and Duck

No, we haven't just got back from some bizarre sounding pub - we spent the day in London with Dad and Maria starting with the Dali exhibition at the Old Town Hall on the Southbank.

We all hopped on the tube heading for Embankment at 9:30 this morning, all expecting London to hit the dizzy heights of 23 degrees. We arrived at London's Southbank and headed for the exhibition. Now I have to admit I didn't know that much about Dali (except the melting clocks and elephants with long legs fetish he seemed to have) but the exhibition certainly changed all that. It was packed full of sculptures, drawings, paintings and videos of the man himself, and what a complete nutter he was. His work was fasinating, a man who takes the meaning of 'eccentricity' to the absolute extreme. As an added bonus, there was a smaller Picasso exhibition downstairs too.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the experience and from there headed towards Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. We took the opportunity of having some grass and sun at the same time to have some lunch as we were a bit early for out next adventure, the London Duck (see picture). Now, when Maria told me what she had planned and it included this 'duck' thing, I had no idea what was going on! The 'Duck' is actually an amphibious vehicle used in World War II to take the troops over to France during D-Day and now take tourists around the streets of London before taking a dip into the Thames. It was great fun and the tour guide on board made me laugh with his 'jokes' about Big Ben being named after Benjamin Hall and thank god his name wasn't Richard :)

After the Duck we headed to Covent Garden for a coffee and a hint of shopping before Jo's withdrawl symptoms got any worse :) We popped into a few places and Bo - there are a great range of jeans in Diesel and Miss Sixty! Unfortunatley we have already bought jeans on this trip and there wasn't much else that really took my fancy but we will head back into the city for another more in-depth trip later in the week.