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 Today we spent about 5 hours in the National Gallery. Bob and Tommy had fun looking at paintings and I had fun playing games on my phone and following them around hahaha

I did look up to see the Van Gogh paintings but that’s about my limit. They have excellent wifi there too so I was happy :)

Tomorrow we begin our journey home. We booked our COVID tests at the airport. It’ll be interesting hauling all our stuff on the tube to Paddington to catch the Heathrow Express. We looked at taking a taxi but Google told us it would take at least 45 minutes to go the 2 miles to Paddington, as opposed to 15 minutes on the tube. So tube it is. Wish us luck! :)

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