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The morning after Jago we had a wonderful breakfast with Si and Heidi at their favourite Turkish restaurant - which does great fry-ups as well as any other breakfast choice you can imagine.

Then it was time to head home. We had a couple of hours to kill so we sent to Euston via the newly refurbished Kings Cross Station. We had read that someone had made a tube map entirely from Lego - we thought it might be worth a look. Indeed it was! It seems there are a few dotted around London - and this one shows you how the map will look in 2020 - with the new stops and lines in.



Look- really made of Lego!

                                  I wonder how long it took to make?



Pretty Impressive I'm sure you'll Agree









The other thing we associate with King's Cross is of course - Harry Potter! He always made his way back to Hogwarts after the summer via Platform 93/4. We were surprised to find that it is actually here!

There seemed to be a queue of people waiting to have a go at getting through - but no-one was succeeding!



Brilliant Marketing!

They were having fun trying though - and getting their photos taken at the same time. There was an official photographer although you didn't have to buy one - you could get someone to take one on your phone. The staff would lend you a scarf - and as you had the photo done would get you to jump as they lifted up the scarf. That produced some very effective pictures!




Another prospective Hogwarts Student has a go...

There just happens to be a Harry Potter shop right beside it - where you can purchase your photo (only £8) - or any other memorabilia from the world of Harry Potter.

What a brilliant idea!

We were tempted and ended up with a poster for our office at home :-) Sadly we didn't have the time to wait in the sizeable queue to get our photos taken.

We wandered through St Pancras Station too - as it is also really impressive with some nice shops.

Just before going to Euston we had time for one more experience - so popped into the British Library to have a look at their Propaganda Exhibition. It was brilliant! Started with the history of propaganda  which began with the Catholic Church with their mission to propagate the faith. Then it became known for bad things - like justifying war and Imperialism. It is also used for good - in health campaigns for instance. We saw old adverts with Tufty the Squirrel and the Green Cross Code man telling us how to cross the road safely as well as more later campaigns such as the government's plasticine people trying to stop us all getting obese!

 It came right up-to-date with twitter. Did you know that the most retweeted tweet in history (so far!) was President Obama's when he tweeted "Four more years"

It was so fascinating that we almost missed out train. We had to sprint down the road to Euston and managed to catch it just in time :-) We had a lovely time in London - but it was pretty exhausting and we were happy to be home :-)



The British Library