London

In the middle of January we took a train to London - we bought a family railcard (on a special at 1/3rd of the price) and this card gives discounts on train trips. We have used it a couple of times and it has already paid its way :)
And we are blessed to have friends in London so that we didn't have to pay for accommodation - we stayed with Judy, a friend we met in Keswick, in Streatham, South West London.
We only went for 3 days. Gary attended John Stott's memorial service at St Pauls Cathedral on Friday the 13th. While he was there, The girls and I went to the SA consulate to renew their passports - good thing we did, as it takes 4 months to get it back - and they expire 15th of May!! You'd think in today's technological age, that they wouldn't have to send them all the way to SA to issue! Ah well, at least the photos were accepted - I thought they'd send us away as we had the photos taken at an ID-photo booth and the lady ahead of us who had done the same had her photos rejected - phew! But we had a lovely chat to the lady behind the counter who comes from Kimberley:)
After that we had a quick visit to the National Art Gallery before meeting Gary at St Pauls.


We then headed to the Tower of London. Thanks to Tesco (our supermarket) we had vouchers that they exchanged for entrance to the Tower - so only paid £25 instead of £55 for a family ticket - that would have been ouch!!


The Tower is a worthwhile place to visit - so much history happened there and of course the Crown Jewels, which include the largest diamond in the world,  South Africa's Cullinan diamond:

Here are some of the photos from our time in London:

Alexandra has declared London her favourite city as there is so much to see and take photos of :)