My brother in one of the red phone boxes that are scattered around London. I don’t quite understand the tourist fascination with these. As far as I’m aware, there’s only one last TARDIS, but these are everywhere!

A sneaked shot from within Australia House, home of the Australian Consulate, where the Australian F1 in Schools teams were invited for breakfast. This hall, of course, was used as the set for Gringotts bank in Harry Potter. Apparently shooting for the Potter film took six weeks, for a scene that lasted just a few minutes.

Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guard. I was a little under whelmed by the changing of the guard, with so many people turning out to watch, with the police having to close off the street during the ceremony, there wasn’t much to it. The guards with band march in and enter the palace grounds. Music is played for about 20 minutes whilst the actual changing takes place, and then they march out again. It really was hard to see what was going on as the ceremony is effectively shielded by the palace gates. Unless you are standing right up against the gates, you really can’t see much.

Behind the palace is Hyde Park and Hyde Park corner where the Australian War memorial in London is. The memorial consists of a wall with every town and city from which people who have served for the Australian defence forces has come from (Australian towns or otherwise). Canberra, Tuggeranong and Nimmitabel all make appearances! Nimmitabel was a little hard to find, after about 30 minutes of searching, we discovered that it was in fact around the back of the wall where two panels had been hidden.

Harrods! Same feeling in Harrods as you get when visiting a museum. Everything is beautiful to look at, but you know its all too valuable to take home. The prices are just as much a spectacle as the items themselves (examples being 35 Pounds for a dozen oysters and a 95,000 Pound chandelier!)

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