Highgate cemetery is home to quite a few famous people, the most notable but by no means the most interesting, being Karl Marx. Also planted in this quiet (very quiet) corner of London is Sir Sydney Nolan, who’s famous study of  Ned Kelly probably accounts for the difficulty I had finding him. My favourite planting however, would have to be Douglas Adams, not a revolutionary or a high priced painter but a man with a great sense of humour and is credited with the answer to life, the universe and everything….42.

To visit East Highgate Cemetery you are required to  pay four pounds each. To visit West Highgate, we would have had to book on line and shell out twelve pounds each. Isn’t it great when this information becomes available when it’s to late. On the plus side we were guided part way through the east cemetery by a rather cordial black and white cat with sufficient local knowledge to point out most of the grey squirrels living in the area.

The Tour Begins.

A brief “Paws”

Douglas, pens for…

Following the cemetery and with our freshly honed London Transport skills used to best effect, it was back to Fleet Street, Australia House (the house that saved me from …. well who knows what and delivered me to ….. well where I am now…….Douglas Adams’ 42 again) and then onto The British Museum. If you think we are cramming a lot into a day, well you would be absolutely correct. I think what is required now is for my long term and short term memories to reach some sort of agreement on where we have been and what we have done, then log this information somewhere really clever and in a form that I find vaguely recognisable, then in about six months time all will become clear…..maybe.

The Carving says it all

Thanks.

Fleet Street, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub and St. Paul’s

There is really no point posting pictures of the British Museum, there would be too many. Oh heck, 3 won’t hurt.

By the way, I struggle to sift through the hundreds of photos we have accumulated on this holiday, if you want more or are having difficulty sleeping, we will be home in a couple of weeks and will be well equipped to restore sleep to those suffering the most severe cases of insomnia.

A Orange, White and Grey Eastern Globe Bird…. or something.