Today we spent some time in London city itself, visiting some museums and finally taking one of the open top bus tours. If this rain would just stop for a bit, maybe we'd be able to do more.
Our first stop was the British museum, where we saw a lot of artefacts from Egyptian, Roman & Persian times. Quite interesting, but we couldn't stay too long, this place definitely did not interest children. Next stop was the Natural Science museum, lots more interesting stuff to see, with lots of fossils and other displays. A day at the museums is not the most interesting place for a five year old, so we had to move quite quickly through most of it, until we got to the T-Rex display, where we spent some time.
For lunch we tried Burger King for the first time, needless to say I will not be doing that again, as bad as McDonalds, if not worse.
The rest of the afternoon was spent on an open top bus, with us sitting in the covered part of the top section because of the rain. The plans were to stay in London for dinner and then go on the eye, but then rain started getting worse, so we decided to come home and try that another day.
My Sunday was spent doing some gadget shopping, as I was looking for an iPod replacement after mine decided to stop working a while ago. After visiting about 40 electronics shops and comparing prices, I was very tempted to buy myself a UMPC, but they are still a bit pricy, coming in at around 750 pounds. I settled on the Archos DVR, which is basically a personal video and music player with 80GB of storage, a 4" display, and the ability to connect to any TV/AV device and record from it, or play back to it, as well as change channels etc when necessary. I'll be doing a bit of a review once I've had it for a while. I've seen these second hand on Bid or Buy & eBay for around R2,500, so when I managed to bargain the guy down to 200 pounds I was quite happy, this one came with a remote & tv pod, which the second hand ones didn't have.