Our first full rested day in London started off with the free breakfast at our hotel. This wasn’t some cold cereal and a piece of fruit American free breakfast. This was fresh cooked sausage, bacon, and eggs to order English breakfast. And that wasn’t even everything. There was fried tomatoes, toast, juice, coffee/tea, beans and MORE! I was stuffed when we waddled back up to our room to get our things.
Today was spent thoroughly exploring the Natural History Museum. They have some really great exhibits and we had a lot of fun looking at all the creatures from around the world and from a long time ago. The museum is, of course, housed in a magnificent stone building. We stopped after a few hours and had our afternoon tea. I could really get used to that. We were exhausted when we left, both from taking in so much information as well as from walking so much. We had to take breaks today to just sit in a bench for awhile.
Today was also laundry day. We could only realistically pack for one week, so we both needed to wash clothes. We packed everything we needed into a backpack and a bag and walked 1/2 mile to the closest laundette. Of course, we realized when we got there that we had forgotten our soap we brought from home. So we had to turn around and walk home to get it and a few more coins. Aside from doubling our walking tonight, it worked out great. Our hotel room now has clothes drying on every hook and hanger.
For dinner we had our first fish-n-chips from a ‘chip shop’. Pretty good stuff, although the cod still had its skin, which is just slightly beyond my comfort zone. So I ate around it. A nice greasy meal to end the day.
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