Friday, 10 June 2016

London Trip for AC/DC Concert

8pm. Heading into town for the sleeper

10pm. Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper

Chuffed with the sleeper 

Glasgow Central- on the sleeper

Even more pleased with the free eye-mask & earplugs


Wow! A free bottle of mineral water and a plastic glass!

And embossed soap!

Cheers!

G'night Dad!

Arrived: London Euston 7.45am

Bacon rolls for breakfast at Euston Station

Strolling through Russell Square en route to The British Museum

Cool shop

The British Museum

Trying to sneak into the British Museum

Fabulous Queen Elizabeth II Great Courtyard

The stairs outside the Reading Room

The Lion of Knidos

Head of Amenhotep III
Hoa Hakananai'a- a moai (Easter Island statue)
                                               
Chinese Temple roof tiles

Vast marble statue of the Buddha Amitābha in a stairwell


The Mummy Room!

The Mummy Room!


You can't beat a real skull

Lion Panel, Processional Way to Babylon Ishtar Gate


The Royal Game of Ur (an ancient game of two gameboards found in the Royal Tombs of Ur in Iraq by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. They boards date from the First Dynasty of Ur, before 2600 BC, making the Royal Game of Ur one of the oldest board games found

The Oxis Treasure 200BC

The Mold Gold Cape
A unique ceremonial cape of gold, made during the Early Bronze Age, around 3,700 years ago.
 The cape is regarded as one of the finest pieces of Bronze Age craftsmanship and gold-working technique in Europe.

A skeleton

Ish & Al smirking at a naked bum on a statuette


A replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet

The Frank's Casket- intricate ivory carvings.

The incomparable Lewis Chessmen

Ish & Al peering in at the Lewis Chessmen

Lewis Chessmen

Lewis Chessmen

Queen Elizabeth II Great Courtyard

The Portland Vase: best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.

The Freedmen Heads (Marble funerary relief from Ancient Rome)(& Ish and Al)

Some ancient geezer with a beard

Great staircases

Cool wall-carving

Horse statue from Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Elgin/Parthenon Marbles frieze

The Rosetta Stone

The kids have been learning about this at school

We were sure we'd seen these 2 in Night At The Museum...

Queen Elizabeth II Great Courtyard

Queen Elizabeth II Great Courtyard

Queen Elizabeth II Great Courtyard

Stairwell





Lindow Man. 2,000yr old bog body

Lindow Man

Stairwell









Underground Escalators Tottenham Court Road



Poster for Muhammad Ali exhibition at The O2 London who coincidentally died that morning, aged 74.

Waiting for the DLR

The O2 across the Thames from the DLR

Arriving at Stratford for the AC/DC concert

Stratford

Approaching the Olympic Stadium, Stratford for the AC/DC gig 4/6/16

Under the awning of the adjacent Aquatic Centre 


Olympic Stadium, Stratford

The ArcelorMittel Orbit Tower- a viewing tower with the world's soon-to-be-completed, longest (178m) slide tunnel. The kids want to go back!

2 regular AC/DC fans at the stadium

Ready for the gig

Devil horns at the ready


View from our seats







Stage

Group shot

From the top of the stairs - we were sat at the bottom.

6-portrait photo stitch 

6-portrait photo stitch (unedited)











Breughel meets Lowry..

...with a touch of Hieronymus Bosch! 

Devil horns 1 

Devil horns 2

Devil horns 3

They're on!





Video clip of  'Sin City' live (fragment)






Video clip of Ish & Al singing along to 'Highway To Hell':





Leaving the concert 

Heading for the train


Waiting for the train

Sunday morning, London Underground


Just hanging around


Meeting Uttom at the Natural History Museum

In front of the Natural History Museum


Entrance

Like a cross between The Kelvingrove and Rosslyn Chapel





Charles Darwin


Dinosaur Room







Snack break in the sun




Down in the 'hands on' investigative room

You are being watched...

Shark jaw




The butterfly house


A moth emerges from dad's wallet...

Al pleased with his hitch-hiker

Saying good bye to Uttom



Pedestrian walkway South Kensington




Milk shakes at Gatwick during a 3hr delay...

Taxiing to the runway at last at 9.45pm...

Flying back to Glasgow

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