It is a very short one night stopover in London before heading home. We had lined up two things in the afternoon to keep us awake. We have a room in a small hotel not far from Waterloo Station and we caught the train there from Tilbury, including a couple of changes, taking about hour and half and got into London about 11am.

First was a ticket to the Paddington Bear experience, near the London Eye. We have come across Paddington before, a card board cut out of him along Portobello Road a few years ago.

The other time a great big statue of him in Lima, Peru from where his family originates. Peru is also the source of the oranges for the special marmalade jam sandwiches that he likes do much.

And of course we have seen the Paddington in Peru movie in Brisbane, who hasn’t?

This ‘experience’ though was very much for ‘kids’ and PB fans. One hops aboard the train and then goes on an entertaining journey, narrated by some actors, through the PB world. Takes about an hour and half. If you have done it once it is not necessary to do it twice.

Would have been nice to have had a marmalade sandwich at the end tossed in with the admission price!

Just had to have something to eat for a late lunch after the PB experience, so we tried some F & C. These were rather good even if they came from a fast food shop where everything was deep fried and self serve. Seemed all of London was there cutting loose on the tantalising tit bits.

Bit of a slow trudge back to the hotel for a feet up before going to Shakespears Globe for a 6.30 presentation of the little presented Cymbeline. This was rather fun in the small Shakespearean era theatre recreation. The actors were all into it, with side comments to the audience and among themselves. Must read the play now!

So this brings to a close our trip to Norway and a few side locations. We will soon board the Emirates flight to Dubai and then Brisbane. Until next time…..