I've been too . . . lazy?

I thought doing this every day might turn out to be a bit ambitious.

After a hard day sight seeing / sitting in the local pub, typing on this wee keyboard is lower on the agenda than sleeping.

Yesterday, (Sunday 24th) we went over to Portobello markets.

There was antiques / jewellry, knick-knacks, second hand books and a lot of straight out crap. But there was a friendly sort of vibe to the place.

Afterwards, we headed over to Hyde Park and Speaker's Corner - a bastion of truly free speech - if you have the courage to deal with the hecklers. One way of doing this seemed to be to get into an arguement, some of them quite good-natured, some pretty heated. The other method seemed to be simply carrying on with the planned speech very loudly completely ignoring the chap shouting at you from half a metre away. A quite impressive feat.

Of course, some blokes just go down there for a laugh.

We walked and then we walked a bit futher.

We passed the front of Buckingham Palace, where there is already a media frenzy over the wedding on Friday.

We also passed Westminster Abbey, where I had hoped to attend evensong - not out of any religious motive - simply for the splendid music. Surprisingly, Evensong was at 3pm - with the sun not setting until about 8:30, I thought it would be later, and we missed it.

Today (Monday 25th) we started out with a visit to the Charring Cross Hospital Accident and Emergency Department for a medical assessment of a very suspicious mole on Fiona's forearm. It was examined and given the all-clear - apparenly there are a number of characteristics of melanomas that it lacks. Better safe than sorry.

Reassured, we resumed our normal programme of touristing with a visit to one of the best small galleries in the world. The Courtauld - some fabulous works (van Gogh, Manet, Picasso, Degas, Seurat) mixed in with some of the ugliest canvases I have ever seen.

Later we went on to the Tate Britian a gallery that specialises in the works of British artists. Again, a very mixed bag. Fiona is a big fan of JMW Turner - lots of good things for her to see.

It is very tiring standing around looking at pictures - and hard on the feet.

We hopped on the bus and got home early.

Time for a little lie down.

Photo of the day a couple playing with their dog in the fountain at Somerset House.