Big day out

Friday 16th May 2014

Blog post dictated by Miss 7

Today was a warm and sunny day.  We caught the tube to Blackfriars (I thought it was people wearing black clothes cooking fried food but actually it was named after monks who wore black robes).  This is a picture of us near St Paul's Cathedral which is near Blackfriars.

 

We walked over the Millenium Bridge to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.  This is a picture of the theatre from the Millenium Bridge.

 

We went inside the theatre and we had a tour.  It was really cool inside the theatre because there was so much to see.  The theatre has been made to look just like the old one.  The walls are made of mud and goat hair.  The seats inside are all made of wood. In the olden days you paid one penny to stand up, two pennies to sit down and three pennies to sit down with a cushion.  There were also places for the gentlemen and the Lords to sit.  They couldn't see the show very well but everyone could see them.

 

We had to be very quiet inside the theatre and we couldn't take any photos because the people were rehearsing 'Antony and Cleopatra'.  It was good to actually see people acting on the old stage.

 

After the tour we went to the exhibition.  The exhibition had a trail to follow and we had to find answers to questions from the quotes and information on the walls.  This is a picture of me with the Queen Elizabeth I costume.

 

Next we went to get lunch at the Borough Markets.  On our way we saw the Golden Hinde which was Sir Francis Drake's ship.  The markets were really busy and there was lots of food from over the world.  I had a chicken pie from the Pieminister stall.  After lunch we caught the tube to Waterloo Station and the train down to Clapham Junction.  We went to look at where Mummy and Daddy used to live.  This is their old flat on the second floor.

Then we caught the train and tube back to Oxford Circus to go to Hamley's toy shop.  There were five floors with lots of children's toys and books and sweets.  This is a Lego queen with her corgi from the shop.

There were lots of things to see and do in the shop. A lady painted my nail with nail polish pens to look like a strawberry. London was such an amazing place!