Forget the London Aquarium at County Hall, it’s overpriced and riddled with manky school groups from Dagenham. A delicious splash of lunch-time colour can be yours for nowt simply by heading over to Tachbrook Tropicals on Vauxhall Bridge Road. It’s dark inside but the tanks are well lit to display the gorgeous fish and turtles and weird underwater plants. I often spend a good half hour walking up and down the aisles pressing my nose against the tank glass and imagining I’m floating in the warm Pacific above the Great Barrier Reef. When a sales assistant approaches and asks if you need any help simply remove your snorkel and say “I’m just browsing, thanks”. For all those folk out there who think that the best bit of today’s tourist attractions is the gift shop then this place is brilliant as everything is for sale. You can buy a plastic shark attached to a bit of string at The London Aquarium but here you can actually buy a shark! But please don’t (unless you have an aquarium).
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