London Trip

Back in January Jenny and I spent three nights in London, in a luxury hotel adapted from the old Whitbread Brewery in Chiswell Street, right in the heart of the City. Arriving in London Thursday lunchtime we first visited the Dickens Exhibition at the City of London Museum in the Barbican and in the evening went to the National Portrait Gallery in Leicester Square where there was a late night exhibition of Victorian portraits. Thursday morning we had breakfast with Ben in his staff restaurant just 10 minutes walk from our hotel, then visited the Canal Museum, the Jewish Museum and the Wellcome Institute, walking from one to the other. After dinner in a West End restaurant we went to see an excellent performance of the "The Ladykillers". Saturday morning Ben and Thomas came to our hotel to collect us and we walked to Liverpool Street Station (see photo) to catch the first of two buses which took us across London to the Science Museum where we spent most of the day. In the early evening the four of us had a delicious meal in a new Italian restaurant in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral. Then Ben and Thomas had to catch the train home and Jenny and I crossed the Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern. This was our second visit and I'm sorry to say that we still don't really "get" modern art. Sunday morning we got the bus to Rotherhithe to visit the Brunel Museum then walked back along the south bank. The weather was bright and sunny throughout (see photo) but very cold. What a great weekend!