On our visit to London's West End, we took a stroll through Russell Square Gardens in Bloomsbury, a lovely public garden amongst the hustle and bustle of the city.

The gardens were laid out in 1804 and have been prominent over time for a range of reasons, including as the setting for various literary writings. For example, poet TS Eliot worked nearby in the 1920s as a poetry editor at Faber & Faber publishing house.

Russell Square is known as a place for public demonstrations. As I write this, a demonstration was held against the war in the Middle East just a couple of weeks ago.

The 2005 terrorist bombings were close by in the Tube between Russell Square and Kings Cross underground stations.

On a lighter note, outside the gardens I finally got a photo of the green man pedestrian lights - I noticed when we first arrived in London that he walks in the opposite direction compared to Australia. We also noticed that people walk on the right hand side of footpaths and escalators here, yet they drive on the left hand side of the road. Isn't it funny what little details you pick up on!

Russell Square was our last stop before heading for the airport to fly home. We spotted some red phone boxes and realised we hadn’t taken a photo of one yet, so we made this our last above ground selfie in the UK (we later took one at the Heathrow underground station).

Funnily enough we discovered later that those phone boxes actually housed a tiny tiramisu shop – this is how it looks when it’s open!