Monday, April 6/2015

Bus down to Piccadilly, and wander through Soho and China Town. Still holiday busy, and in fact a public holiday, although almost everything open. Enormous crowds, especially at Leicester Square, where there is a long queue of families winding into a building labelled Cinderella. Leicester Square sadly pretty well built over now, and sitting on the tiny remaining bit of grass pretty sharply discouraged. Covent Garden in usual festive mode with the people dressed as silver and gold statues posing for photographs, though heaven knows how they make any money as the costume set up is pretty elaborate and many of the photographers don't seem to feel compelled to reward the subject with a donation.  There's an interesting collection of the antique, the merely old and kitschy and the frankly second hand and not all that old in the exhibition hall, which gives us a happy half hour of browsing. Then pick up a bus on the Strand and home.