London Day Three

On our last day in London (we only ended up having three sadly) we decided to have tea in Kensington palaces orangery (suggested by the lovely Aunt Angela) followed up with the Victoria and Albert museum which proved to be my favourite museum yet. 

We arrived very early and realised that nothing opened until ten so spent the next few hours wanderng Kensington park which was in fact lovely. We walked down the 'path of flowers' which was not only very pretty, but also full of squirrels!! 

After dying of delight for some time, we wandered deeper into the park across overhanging trees and chattering squirrels. 

We eventually stumbled across the Albert memorial. 

It was not only extremely impressive, but also had beautiful statues at each corner representing different countries.  

We then went to have tea. It was well worth the wait as not only was the atmosphere lovely, but the food was delicious, the coffee amazing, and the teacups my favourite thing in the world. 

I also introduced Shyla to the act of dunking sugar cubes in coffee and then eating them. A terrible mistake as once she had realised how good it was, she couldn't stop eating them!

Shyla and her pancake french toast berry goodness. 

After a lovely tea, it seemed like it would rain so we made our way to the Victoria and Albert museum, which turned out to be my favourite museum of all the ones we had been to so far, and we ended up staying so long we missed out on the natural history museum and had to sprint to catch our train back to Surrey to get to the Dover ferry in time. 

Beautiful mosaics hung in the halls.

Samurai. 

An adorable lion.

Medieval stairs.

Mesmerized by an adorable lion.

And then came my favourite section of all. The Shakespeare exhibition which I stumbled across much to my delight. Around a corner a wall presented itself to me covered in quotes. 

Upon closer examination I realized everything pertained to Shakespeare and after wandering around the corner I discovered all sorts of amazing things.

The original book of Shakespeare's plays.

An original ticket to one of his plays.

The skull used for the 'Alas poor Yorick' scene, given to them by Victor Hugo.