Yesterday morning was once again the annual Rugby Sevens at Twickenham. It's now the 4th in a row I've gone, and its always been a good day out. Previously we'd always been pretty lucky with the weather, except this year, was certainly a bit cooler than before, with a bit of rain in the afternoon but luckily didn't affect us too much. After a fairly early wake up yesterday, Si, Loz and myself headed off down to Cappuccino for breakfast and met up with Seamus along the way and Uns' who was already there. After breakfast and a coffee, we met up with Ally and Helene and then off to catch the train out to Twickenham, along with tens of thousands of other people too - the majority dressed up in Safari, the theme of this year's Sevens.

We met up with Will who was waiting for us there, as well as Lorenzo who was inside already. We landed up sitting down in the lower tier behind the posts, and managed to avoid getting moved or shifted along the whole day, which was handy. As always the case with the Rugby Sevens, we watched some games and missed others, but managed to see the important ones - SA against France which we won 17 - 14 in the dying moments and then SA against USA which we somehow lost 22-5. We missed the first South African game where we beat the Aussies by 5 points to nothing, which would've been a good one to be there for. As always, there was excellent support for England, Australia, New Zealand and of course Kenya!

There were games throughout the day, and they're all pretty quick, so you land up watching the beginning of one game then randomly the end of another game. But it's all good fun, I guess it's mainly the atmosphere and the crowd you go for. I would like the weather to have been slightly better than it was, but at least we were just far up enough in the stands to miss the worst of the rain.

We decided to leave just before the last game, which was England vs Argentina, to try avoid the crowds, but seemed like the majority of the crowd had a similar idea. Instead we took a bus to Richmond, tried to get into Nandos but was too long a wait, then took a bus to Putney and settled into Nandos there instead. After a decent meal we called it a night, no one was particularly up for doing too much after a full day at the rugby.

I had read online during the week that there'd be an aircraft carrier moored at Greenwich and you'd be able to go on a free tour of the ship all weekend. So this morning Uns and myself headed off to Greenwich to try get on board the HMS Illustrious. However, it seemed that everyone else had the same idea and the queues were insane, and in fact they had actually closed the queue off due to the waiting time. That was a pity, so instead we decided to visit the Cutty Sark which until today hadn't yet done. The Cutty Sark was a British clipper ship, and built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis shipping line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest at the time. The ship was badly damaged by fire on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation and had since been restored and reopened to the public back in April 2012.

The walk around the old clipper was really interesting and sure glad we did that. I'd always wanted to visit it, but never got around to actually getting on board (and now underneath too). Afterwards we headed into Greenwich Market for lunch then over to Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre for a quick refreshment before making our way home. En route to the bus stop, we landed by randomly bumping into Haig and Warrick who were also in Greenwich for the day. Not often you randomly bump into people in London, especially those who live down on the coast!

From there it was back to Uns' place to give her a hand moving stuff around in the house before the buildings come in tomorrow morning, and then finally back to the rental place for a nice, chilled out Sunday evening.