Bright Lights, Big City...

Kind of a last minute thing, we decided to got to London on Sunday morning. We just wanted a day out, a change from the norm, and decided we would go to see Westminster Abbey. Having passed by before I know how impressive Westminster is, the place is huge! Steeped in history and all that. It was then very disappointing to find Westminster Abbey closed to the public on a Sunday. I mean, if we'd thought about it it would have made snese, what with it still being in use for Sunday services. We quickly got over our disappointment, we were in London, there's loads todo. Jamie decided we should go to Carnaby Street, I had no arguments...
 
Of course, completely ignoring the route on the GPS device in my handbag, we got lost on our way to Carnaby Street. We ended up walking down the Strand and then ended up in Covent Garden. It was acutally, bustling with people, activity, lots of buskers. There we had some extremely lovely Cornish pasties (these are the best things ever made, my God, I love them).
 
Leaving Convent Garden and heading in no particular direction we found ourselves in Leicester Square, where there was alot of activity. Lots of screaming teenagers and some fireworks drew our attention to the scene on the right. It turned out we had just stumbled onto the stars arriving for the UK Premier of Thunderbirds. I have always been drawn to a bit of celebrity spotting, and was disappointed to at first discover some kids who I'd never seen before. these ar ehte nobodies who fill the childrens role sin the movie. Sophia Myles was there in a dress that almost wasn't, swanning around her pink Ford which is suppoed to remind us of the Rolls Royce that was used in the puppet show of the '60s.
 
However, I felt very left out when Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker) turned up and I was the only person getting excited. I think I was the only person in the crowd old enough to know who he was. How embarrassing!!!
But then Sir Ben Kingsley turned up and this just made my day. He could talk the hind legs off a donkey, cos he gave longer interviews than anyone else. he was the last of the important people to go into the cinmea, and before he departed he even signed autographs, for the young upstarts who wouldn't remember or even have noticed some of his fantastic performances which include Ghandi, Schindler's List and House of Sand and Fog.
 
I got no autographs but there are photos available here. You may have to squint to work out who they famous people are, but they're there.
 
We did eventually make it to Carnaby Street, via a pitstop for Starbucks :-) I was chuffed with my day in London - I love celebrity spotting.