Blog ≫ 2014 ≫ London midweek weekender part four
In which our intrepid travellers did the museums...
With the four of us sharing a room on our midweek weekender we were up fairly early. We didn't go for the breakfast option in the novotel but decided to find some outside instead. Nearest place to us was the Plum Tree Cafe and it was great! They had a good play area inside for the kids, and also good coffee, good quality breakfast ingredients and plenty of choice, and all in it was less than the breakfast option in the hotel would have been. I had a good vege breakfast, Linda McCartney sausages, beans, tomato, hash browns and mushrooms, and everyone else ate well too. The people running the cafe seemed constantly stressed, they struggled to cope with actual customers coming in. This is weird but you do see it a lot, it's like that cafe sketch that Armstrong and Miller did.
We got the train into London, to a strangely quiet Cannon Street and made it with a limited number of stairs to South Kensington and the museums. We went to the back entrance of the Natural History Museum so the queue was a lot shorter than the front entrance but still took us half hour to get in. We did the dinosaurs and things, pretty crowded, quite stressful, and Number one son was not as engaged with it all as we had hoped. Got a load of pictures. Lunch there was very good, their restaurant is very vegan friendly, we all ate well.
After lunch we did the Science Museum, a bit of a rush through it to "The Garden" which is the kids exploration bit downstairs. Lots of fun things for them to play with.
I spent some time looking at rocks while Clare and Number one son queued for the big escalator up into the volcano zone, I loved the stibnite and especially the ruin marble, it looks like a Turner or something but is an entirely natural phenomenon:
Hope that deep link to my image works there.
On the way back we came out the back way of Greenwich Station and so found Davy's Wine Shop and Davy's Wine Vaults. Bought some of their own claret which was great, and also Clare picked this as her spot to come for a drink while the boys were going to sleep. She did offer me the chance to go to the bar again while she sat in, and then suggested I go there after she got back in but I was knackered after a long day of walking about and arguing with Number one son... Nice for both of us to be sat in quietly, with no TV and catch up on our books, I might post them as responses to this post...
To sleep then, ready for our final day.
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