Cardiff

So, the day after Wimbledon HQ and I heded to Cardiff. Oh my goodness I love that city. Cardiff wins at life, the universe and everything. We found everything we wanted there - I even found a new bellydance belt! I have now eaten in the restaurant where Nine and the Slitheen ate (excellent Italian food btw), stood on Torchwood's invisible lift, been in the hospital on new Earth, stood where Jackie was before getting attacked by Autons and hugged a Dalek. It was an eventful 2 days! And I loved every second of it.

We did do non Who!verse things though. We went ot the National Museum of Wales. The have an excellent natural history section, including a part where you walk into this cave and all f a sudden you a confronted  with a Woolly Mammoth and its young which move. So Awesome.

Why yes, there was a random TARDIS in the foyer of the Welsh Assembly.

Wimbledon

So, Monday morning arrived and HQ and I had Court 1 tickets to Wimbledon. WIMBLEDON.

Anyway, first up, we headed out to court 12 as Mardy Fish was playing. I heart Mardy. So pleased that the first match I have ever seen in person was a Mardy match and he won in straight sets. At Wimbledon (just in case you forgot). I took nearly 200 pictures just of Mardy in that match *sheepish*.

After Mardy's match we shopped and I bought an insanely expensive Wimbledon charm for my bracelet. Then we headed to Court 1 where we caught Berdych. What we were really waiting for though was Andy Roddick.... who we saw warm up before the rain came. :(

AT this point HQ leftbfor her Tennant appoitment and I watched the end of Jelena Dokic's match on the big screen from Centre Court before HOL joined me. Through a friend who was leaving we then managed to aquire Centre Court tickets for Andy Murray. So much fun! And great tennis.

Londoon part 2 continued.

Sorry for the delay - I've not only been busy but have had internet issues. Now where was I?

On Saturday 18 June it was museum day. I went to the Victoria & Albert Museum on my own in the morning and the Natural History Museum with HQ in the afternoon. I think I preferred the Ntural History Museum to be honest.

There was some very gorgeous jewellery on display at the V&A, as well as some gorgeous mosiacs and snuff boxes. And I was amused to see a Trainspotting movie poster in the 20th Century exhibit.

The Natural History Museum was great. The dinosaur exhibition is closed at the moment but they had some glorious gemstones in The Vault  Just beautiful. A massive collection of gems, minerals and crystals outside as well. The earth exhibition was pretty cool too. You go up an escalator and into the molten core of the earth. You can also experience the Kyoto earthquake from the 90s.

On the Sunday I walked over Millenium Bridge and visited the Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe.

The Tate Modern was interesting. I enjoyed the gallery dedicated to pop art and also the works of Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock. Pollock's drip paintings definitely fascinate me. The pop art section had a couple of Andy Warhol self portraits that were cool.

The Globe was pretty amazing. I learnt a lot, not only about the original Globe, but about the building of the current replica (The actual Globe having burnt down in the 17th Century). I didn't realise it was actual Zoe Wanamaker's dad, Sam Wanamaker, who was the driving force behind the rebuilding of the Globe. Unfortunately he didn't live to see it completed.

I actually got really lucky and saw some of the rehearsal for Dr Faustas which had opened the night before while I was on the tour.