Sandra and I thought we’d do something a bit touristy today with a visit to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not in Piccadilly Circus.

You’ll find all sorts of weird and wonderful things here at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not – including the fact that you’re pocket is nearly £27 lighter (if you also do the Mirror Maze which is arguably one of the highlights though at £5 is quite overpriced!) – believe it or not. Top advice if you don’t want to feel ripped off, and you will if you pay full price entry, is to look for a deal. (Sandra found one for us on lastminute which saved us a bundle of money.)

Next bit of advice is to get to Ripley’s when there aren’t a lot of people there – either first thing in the morning or maybe late at night though I can’t vouch for late at night (its open until midnight (last entry 22.30)).

So what’s inside? There the good old shrunken heads, the Tower Bridge built out of matchsticks, animals with two heads, circus acts (that is, humans and animals born with defects), etc. There is even a painting by a horse! And portraits of royalty made by pennies.

Then there is the midget in a cage.

Can you guess what these are?

There is enough inside to entertain you at least for about an hour, 90 minutes if you really take your time. However I do admit thinking, that as we made our way through the three floors, when is the big ticket item going to make an appearance. It never really did.

We did, however, spend about ten minutes in the mirror maze trying to get out! Ha ha!