Day 32 - Tuesday 15 May - London

I'm still after someone to come and give me a foot massage.. I've done just over 100000 steps in the past four days!

First stop this morning was a short walk to Garden Lodge - Freddie Mercury's old home (and current home of Mary Austin) in Kensington. There's a bunch of written notes to Freddie stuck to the walls (behind some plexiglass heh).

Northeast corner of Garden Lodge

North wall of Garden Lodge

Door to Garden Lodge

Freddie Mercury tributes at Garden Lodge

England can't make up its mind when you should stand on the left or right. Dumbheads.

Keep left when walking in stations

Stand on the right - on escalators

Then the tube into town to go to St Paul's cathedral. I arrived at the opening time of 8:30 and ended up spending three hours there! The audio tour there was actually an audio/video things on an iPod! Climbed all the way to the top of the domes for some great views of London.

St Paul's Cathedral

Dome of St Paul's Cathedral

Roof of St Paul's Cathedral

Millennium Bridge from St Paul's Cathedral

View south to northeast from St Paul's Cathedral

The Old Bailey from St Paul's Cathedral

View southwest from St Paul's Cathedral

The Shard from St Paul's Cathedral

View to City of London from St Paul's Cathedral

Stairwell in the dome of St Paul's Cathedral

Looking down from the top of the dome into St Paul's Cathedral

People taking photos down into St Paul's Cathedral from the dome

View southwest from St Paul's Cathedral

Paternoster Square from St Paul's Cathedral

View to City of London from St Paul's Cathedral

View to Tower Bridge from St Paul's Cathedral

View south from St Paul's Cathedral

Shakespeare's Globe theatre from St Paul's Cathedral

South wall of St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

Then walked across the Millennium Bridge to go to the Globe Theatre. Got to see some Argentinians rehearsing for their show tonight - they were doing Henry IV Part 2 as part of the Globe to Globe festival (which sadly doesn't appear to have Hamlet in the original Klingon).

Millennium Bridge towards St Paul's Cathedral

Tate Modern

St Paul's Cathedral and Millennium Bridge

St Paul's Cathedral from Southbank

Shakespeare's Globe theatre

Queen Elizabeth costume

Cleopatra costume

Site of the Globe Theatre

Back across the bridge and tubed over to Leicester Square to meet Campbell for lunch. We had some nice dumplings, and was good to catch up with him again.

Then we walked up the road a bit so I could get some more USB and SD memory at a pretty decent price too. Should do me until I get to Japan, then can use Stu's computer for the rest of the trip as the non-platter backup.

And finally to the British Museum. I was hoping to have most of the afternoon there, but with the late lunch and shopping, I ended up only having an hour and a half there :( Hoping to get some more time there tomorrow afternoon, but that's all a bit up in the air at the moment.