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3+ hours later: King's Cross platform 9¾ - as crowded as ever
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Meanwhile, the real platforms 9 and 10 are over there.
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Warning: This photo album contains multiple musical posters and theatres. (We only went to see one. More of that later.)
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With the multiple lines on one platform today is a Kinder surprise game.
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That's the show we're gonna see tonight!
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Brunswick Square Gardens provides us with our first phone box
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The British are so polite!
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Here we are at our first destination: the British Museum (side entrance)
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Our primary aim are the Greek and Roman galleries
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Some of the mosaics in the staircase
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Hadrian and his lover (?)
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in the clock/clockwork room
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some toher cool stuff (that skeleton is a copy)
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Egyptian cows! Just like at the museum in Torino!
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That was a gallery we had to cross, it had books and statues.
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(some pretty cool statues)
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Athena! (Actually, Minerva.)
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Much less beleaguered than the Mona Lisa in Paris: the Rosetta Stone
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backside of the Rosetta Stone
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The main hall - this wasn't covered the first time I was here. (They covered a lot of train statiosn too: King's Cross, Waterloo, Victoria...)
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This is the main entrance where we shoudl have gone in with oru reservations. (No one ever checked them at the side entrance.)
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They must be making a lot of money.
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Waterloo station (like in the ABBA song)
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I have no idea who Magic Mike is
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walking through the rain toward Big Ben we come across the London Eye
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Lots of things to see here: Shrek, the London Dungeon, Paddingotn (not shown), Sealife (also not shown)
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But this is where we want to go for our photos: Big Ben!
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They set up several phone boxes for the tourists. This one was free, and we took turns with a French couple taking photos.
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At the one closest to Big Ben, there was a queue. Yes, really.
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Victoria Palace - we're early, clecking out the surroundings while there's still daylight (and looking for the stage door)
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Let's get something to eat (not German döner) at the tiny mall next to Victoria Station
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Focus! About time to go in!
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The Victoria Palace Theatre is gorgeous!
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Lots of time to go down and get close to the stage!
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OK, last pics and phones off. The show is on.
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Intermission ice cream! (And Geoege Washington in the theatre!)
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What a show! What a cast!
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One last picture, and we're off to the stage door! (The actors we met there were so lovely!)
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Final pictures of the theatre and off home to the hotel.
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Saturday March 07, 2026
cool hotel breakfast
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H&City would have been direct from the hotel to St Pancras - oh well, we'll take the extra time into account this afternoon
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We're starting out at Piccadilly to look at all the theatres. (And there are a lot.)
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I'll be back for Les Mis - I haven't seen it wihtout the turning stage yet.
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Chinatown starts just across the street from the Sondheim
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Hadestown plays at the Lyric, just two theatres down from the Sondheim
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Leicester Square: m&m's, Lego, Mary Poppins, and lots of scouts
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back at Piccadilly and off to...
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Via Leicester Square and Charing Cross Road on our way to Folyes, we see all this.
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Now going from Foyles to Seven Dials foodmarket
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So much choice! A really nice place. No big brands.
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Now walking from Seven Dials to Oxford Street (still lots of scouts around)
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and to Trafalgar Square (more scouts) to go back to the hotel (time's up)
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One last stop - I can't visit London without at least seeing Tower Bridge!
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It's not just the early bird that catches the worm!
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We saw all those and more - final count was 21.
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Saint Pancras - time to go home, but what a weekend!
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