Yesterday in London
Our last few hours in London — how sad!
We slept well into 9am yesterday before heading off to find 221B Baker Street. We toured the gift shop and nearly missed the Sherlock Holmes Museum, but finally purchased tickets and went upstairs to see “his apartment.”
After that was a jaunt over to the British Museum, where we took a quick spin through the exhibits I was most interested in — the fantastic rooms of Egyptian artifacts, as well as the Roman (Greek?) sculptures.
We hopped on the tube and then met Tania, Alfonso, and their other Seattle friend Chris for a walking tour of their neighborhood. We hit a bustling street fair for picnic fare then headed into the park.
London is unusually warm and beautiful at the moment, and it happens to be a bank holiday on Monday so it seems most of the city is crowding into the sunny areas of the city parks — sipping on beers with their disposable charcoal grills fired up.
We had a great picnic (meeting up with their friends James, Valeria, and daughter Olivia) and then they escorted us back to our hotel by way of an upper-deck bus ride on one of London’s famous red busses.
We said our goodbyes then cleaned up and grabbed a bite. After a gelato, we walked back towards Leichster Square for the late showing of Le Clique. This cabaret show was fantastic, and came highly recommended by Tania & Alfonso, as well as our waiter that night. Comedy, an aerialist, roller skates, hula hoops, balancing men in suits, balancing men in trunks, an amazing drag artist, a juggling Freddy Mercury, and a contortionist… Yeah, a pretty eclectic group! We stayed for an extra cocktail or two afterwards then came back to the hotel and crashed.
Now it’s just about 8 and we’ll venture out once more to do some shopping before heading off to Harwich cruise terminal. We’re sad to leave London behind, but are sure there are more great adventures ahead!
