This was to be M's first visit to a gallery of any kind so I was a bit aprehensive as to whether he would like it or not - turns out he prefers the architecture of the buildings to the actual art but at least he was game! In fact the National and National Portrait Galleries are on his list of things he wants to do (a very long list it is too) along with sightseeing in London gernerally so he was actually pretty keen on the whole idea :o)
You're obviously not allowed to take photo's in the galleries but we also did a bit of tourist piccy taking outside - the weather was shit so none of them turned out great :o(
As per usual I am waiting for M to upload his pics -hoping that he will have some better ones!
After we had looked around the Galleries and I had established that I really don't like Van Gogh or Cezanne we were both hungry so headed for Leicester Square to get some lunch. We didn't know before hand but they had West End Live going on in Leicester Square this weekend - the first we knew about it was seeing a big fat stage in the square with Sue Pollard singing on it :o/
Confused? We were! Until that is a nice lady gave us a free programme which explained that West End Live is like a mini musical festival where there are performances from participating West End Shows. It is also sponsered by various organisations who had tents / little exhibition areas around the stage. We met Shaun the Sheep, Paddington Bear, had our pictures taken with the stars of Ratatouille: Rat-a-too-ee and Doctor Who. We saw the Batmobile, the Pink Panther car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, James Bond's car, and I stood inside a bubble! To top it all of they gave us each a plastic bag with a load of freebies in when we left. How jammy are we?!
Oh and if you are wondering - Sue Pollard is apparently in Menopause the Musical...
After all the excitment of West End Live we really were hungry so went to Garfunkels for lunch - M had a yummy looking club sandwich and I had the spiciest Penne Arrabiata in the world. Obviously ate far too much so tried to walk it off with more sightseeing...
Down the Mall to Buckingham Palace:
Through St James Park to the Horse Guards Parade Grounds:
Past Downing Street then over the bridge to the South Bank:
Calling it a day and jumping on the Tube back to Paddington for the train home. 
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