A Weekend in London - Saturday

Baker Street Station

Saturday mornings when we are in London usually start slowly since our son likes to do local 5K runs or other things, so we tend to go find our own breakfast and meet him when he is ready.

The Black Lion is serving breakfast again, they had stopped the last time we were there.  But we had already decided to simply go to McDonald's. Alan loves it and I only get porridge so I don't mind either.  We started late since I had coughed almost all night and deprived Alan of sleep too, since this room is not a suite!  Boy we could have used those fabulous rooms we had in Italy to give me space to cough!  He said it really didn't bother him, but I know it did!

Coincidentally, there was a cold remedy commercial on the tv and we made the pharmacy our first stop - even before breakfast!  The pharmacist made sure I could take this medication.  I do like how they ask and see if anything people are taking competes with over the counter medications.  This cold remedy got me through the weekend and really did help.

Our first stop was meant to be Parliament Square, even though it was Saturday and no one would be meeting.  We thought all the protesting flags would be there anyway.  We were wrong. Only the ones advocating Remain were there and we wanted the mixture of all the flags.  We had also hoped to meet  the Stop Brexit Man but he is only there when Parliament is sitting too.

Westminster

We had taken a detour and stopped at Baker Street to take some photos of this beautiful station.  This station is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan line and the platform we like to visit and photograph is one of two original platforms from a more beautiful time of architecture!  When travelling into London whenever we visit, we almost always pass through this station, and like to stop there at least once to see it again!  Our poor son is used to how often we have photo stops, he is a study in patience at times.

My original idea was to go to Greenwich for the Diwali events they had going on there. But I was not well and very tired after coughing all night long. And it had started to rain.....so we went to lunch at Giraffe in the Southbank Centre.  It had been a while since I had eaten at a Giraffe restaurant and had no idea my food allergies had built up so massively that there was almost nothing I can eat there and everything looks so delicious!  I ordered fish and chips, can't get much safer than that! Alan tried Katsu Curry and enjoyed it. Our son got the most interesting dish that I would have loved to order if I was able.... a Beef Bulgogi Bowl!

Beef Bulgogi Bowl

My safe fish and chips

Katsu Curry

It was still raining so we decided to wander to the British Museum.  Passed this amazing skateboarding area and loved that it is valuable real estate right on the River Thames and it is solely for free entertainment of young people.

We finally arrived at the British Museum and it looked like every tourist in London had decided to escape the rain, as a result, there were hundreds of people standing in a line, in the rain, waiting to get in. So we simply went back to the Black Lion and enjoyed that gorgeous pub.

Got inspired to look at the NFL website and managed to get LA Rams and Cincinnati Bengals tickets for the next day for a fraction of what they should have cost!

I had to have a nap, remember, I am still fighting off some sort of respiratory something!

Then we went to another of our favourite local restaurants, called Kaipiras.  This little restaurant is tucked away off the main street and, as many times as I have been there, I don't think I could ever find it on my own! But their steaks are amazing and I highly recommend searching for this eatery!

To end the day, we went to the movies! There is a cinema right across the street from the Black Lion but we have never been in it before.  How nice to live so close to a movie theatre and just walk there whenever you feel like seeing a film!  True city living, I have never experienced.  The movie was odd but interesting called "The Day Shall Come".   But the experience of going to the movies on a Saturday night with family was nice and a good way to end this lovely day.

Sounds like we bounced around like a pin ball, and I guess we did. But we were happy and relaxed and that is what it was all about.