Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ London Saturday in reverse order
Saturday ended back a the hotel in Greenwich not too late, maybe half nine-ish? I think we've now outgrown all staying in one room, so there won't be many more trips quite like this. Staying in two rooms will be too expensive, but staying in one room is too crowded.
We got the DLR back via Canary Wharf, I found it annoying and huge. I don't think I like the look of Canary Wharf, but it reminds me a bit of when I did not like Stratford or Bluewater, maybe I will warm to it.
We had dinner at Mildred's vegan restaurant, and it was nice but we ordered a bit too much food reall. We had good starters so didn't have loads of room left for the mains. T2 had nuggies off the kids menu, but T1, Clare, and I ordered three mains that we'd swap between us. One was curry based, one noodele based, and one rice based, and they were good but we couldn't finish them. For starters we'd had hummus and some other things I can't remember, and then cocktails which we also struggled a bit with. It hink we were just over indulged by this point in the weekend.
We had coffee in Coffee Island for a break between dinner and theatre and it's good coffee.
The Mousetrap was the main focus of our weekend and it is brilliant. Obviously can't say too much about this Agatha Christie classic. It's been going for seventy years without the plot being given away. The theatre was very nice, lovely interior, seats banking upwards so everyone had a good view. We had good seats anyway but there aren't many bad seats. I could see people in the boxes getting up to lean round to see the action off to one side. We loved it and the boys were also engaged for the whole thing.
We had a wonder round looking for a snack and went back to seven dials food market, I don't like it as much as I did before. We went in The Cross Keys, a pub I deliberately sought out, but it turns out I had been in there before a long time ago. They have a lot of memorabilia inside, and I thought "this reminds me of a place I went in about the year 2000 and it had a thing signed by Elvis Presley above the bar" and it was the same place.
We got a boat trip in to the centre from Greenwich to Westminster pier, a splendid way to travel. Before that we forewent our hotel breakfast for the place next to the hotel we'd seen the night before and thought about on our previous trip. Breakfast of smoothies and coffee and a vegan breakfast for me, a veggie one for Clare, and egg and bacony options for the boys went down very nicely. It was about twice the price of a hotel breakfast, but I estimate it to be approximately twice as nice.
Estimated 1242 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 prob'ly comes to £1.22 per cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 but not the 'leccy). Though of course I did not use my own machine this weekend. I did make one for the journey and forgot to take it...
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