Legoland
Monday 14th June 2021
Erika had the day off school (a teacher training day) we thought we'd take advantage of that opportunity and take her to Legoland, thinking it would be quiet with other kids being at school. How wrong we were.
London June 2021
John's Pictures

09:53:01
The sign as we were arriving.

10:18:18
Just after entering.

10:18:56
Quite an impressive view of Windsor Castle from here.

10:53:53
Erika and her friend on the first ride (where I wasn't supposed to be taking photos apparently) - called Viking Splash or something.

10:53:55
Chie on the first ride.

10:54:08

11:01:43
Alas the girls weren't really interested in the piratey bit of Legoland, so we just whizzed straight through there.

11:12:56
I think this is the Ninjago ride. You can't really see what's going on here.

11:21:13
Erika and her friend on leaving the Ninjago ride.

11:21:15

11:38:21
I sat out of the next ride - Mia's Riding Adventure, and Erika afterwards wished she had too as the seating was apparently extremely uncomfortable.

11:39:37
Heading into the new "Mythica" bit.

13:13:23
In the Kingdom of the Pharoahs.

13:13:31

13:14:11
On the way into the Laser Raiders ride, which was sort of Indian Jones themed... but with lasers.

13:19:56
Lego Indiana Jones.

14:41:58
The girls went to the particularly splashy part of the park, and I left them to it for a bit so I could instead wander around Miniland. This was much more my sort of thing, and I found it quite delightful.

14:42:15
A pretty impressive model of Palladio's "La Rotonda", a villa in Vicenza.

14:42:34
A little piazza in Italy somewhere. Rather delightful.

14:42:50
More of Italy in the foreground, overlooking Holland in the background.

14:43:35
Well I think it's the Netherlands anyway - or was it part of Belgium?

14:44:08
More of the Netherlands perhaps?

14:44:12

14:45:03
Will this must be the Netherlands surely.

14:51:54

14:52:09
Some giant ducks invading.

14:52:53

14:54:12
La Rotonda again from the other side.

14:54:27
I love how they even managed to grow miniature trees.

14:54:44
Some sort of allium in the foreground here?

14:55:26
Lovely hilltop fortified Italian town.

14:56:23
Not so interested in America, sorry.

14:56:30

14:57:13
The Taj Mahal.

14:57:17

15:00:49
Sydney Opera Houses.

15:00:59
Moscow.

15:07:59
Miniland seen from a bit of a distance.

15:49:32
I joined the girls again for another ride, this one involved submarines.

15:50:13

15:53:07
To begin with all I could see through our window in the submarine was gravel.

15:54:06
....and then a Lego fish.

15:54:09
...and eventually some real fish.

15:54:55
Lego mermaid.

16:13:09
The girls wanted to go on one last ride before the park closed, but I couldn't face any more of the queueing, so I returned to Miniland once again. Here's Scotland. Really nicely done I thought.

16:15:11

16:15:29

16:15:53
A malting for a whisky distillery.

16:16:19
Jedburgh Abbey.

16:17:14
Edinburgh.

16:17:31

16:17:54

16:18:14
London now.

16:18:25
Piccadilly Circus.

16:18:56
Houses of Parliament - a rather magnificent piece of Lego building here.

16:19:01

16:37:43
St. Paul's Cathedral.

16:37:54
The Tower of London.

16:38:00
Tower Bridge.

16:38:15
The Gherkin etc.

16:38:25
The Lloyds building.

16:39:02
Heading towards France now I think.

16:40:09
...but first one of those Cabmen's shelters.

16:41:29
Some olde England.

16:41:54
Stonehenge! ...and Glastonbury Tor behind it.

16:42:06

16:43:46
The Minack theatre in Cornwall.

16:44:11
A Cornish harbour.

16:44:42
Really amazed by this - it's the Pilchard Inn (and even the sea tractor!) from Burgh Island.

16:45:23

16:47:29
Really impressed to see thatched roofs rendered in Lego.

17:09:11
The Eiffel Tower.

17:10:10
I seem to be back to London again now.

17:10:34
Finally met up with the girls again, as the park was starting to clear out.

17:10:37

17:13:06
Erika having an ice cream in Miniland.

17:14:13
Buckingham Palace.

17:20:13
Me, Chie and the Eiffel Tower.

17:22:57
A rather charming Alpine bit.

17:23:02

17:29:44
Erika and her friend, taken just before we left.

17:29:49

17:29:55