One of the "must see" places in London is Madame Tussauds. This is a museum full of wax dummies of famous (and infamous) people. It is housed in the old London Planetarium, easy to get to by bus or tube from anywhere in London. The Oldies were there during their big overseas trip back in 2007 (the one that they didn't take me on because the customs people at Heathrow were impounding small critters). The display changes over the years, but there are around 100 statues on display at any time. Naturally, the Oldies misbehave when I am not around to keep them in line, so here they are hamming it up with some of their favourite dummies. Mum is snuggling up to Johnny Depp and Nicholas Cage. I can't show the photo of what she did with Tom Jones. Dad is trying to convince Admiral Nelson and Sir Francis Drake that jeans and t-shirt are far more comfortable than the gear they are wearing, and is discussing the finer points of cosmology with Albert Einstein. In the lower levels of the museum is the Chamber of Horrors. This is full of wax dummies of notorious murderers and criminals. A scary addition is the use of actors who creep around in the gloomy sections and scare visitors. I am not sure I would like the Chamber of Horrors, but I sure would like to see the rest and Mum would get a great kick out of snuggling up to Benedict Cumberbatch's replica.
Labels: England, London
# posted by Bart Bear @ 3:33 pm
