London 2019

London: Thursday, September 26 to Saturday, October 5

Thursday
Travel day.
United Airlines, Newark departure 8:30AM, arriving Heathrow 8:40PM
Picked up some supplies and checked into the Citadines Hotel in Holborn. Took a pre-booked Cab to the hotel.

Friday

• Boden Shop at Hanger Lane
• Princess Louise Pub for lunch
• British Museum
• Bar Polski for dinner
• 7806 steps, 24 flights

Saturday
 Photos not of Johnson's house, but the Caretakers cottage. The house did sustain some damage during WWII, but was fixed up by the local Fire company.

Prince Henry's room, survived the Great Fire, no longer open to the public. The Eldest when she was little got 50 pence from the elder gentleman who was there when we visited years ago.

• Dr. Samuel Johnson Museum
• Twinings Tea Shoppe on The Strand
• Ye Olde Chesire Cheese, multi-level, multi-room Pub for lunch
• The Delaney for light refreshment
• Sir John Soane's Museum
• Belgo for Dinner, mussels and fries
• 9033 steps, 10 flights

Sunday

• Wellcome Collection
• Marquise Cornwall for Sunday Roast
• Coal Drop Yard, Canopy Market, shops
• German Gymnasium, for drinks. Built in 1865 for the German Gymnastics Society, now an upscale eatery.
• 10692 steps, 24 flights

Monday

 Photos from the Roof Terrace at the Institute of Engineering and Technology

 

• London Film Museum, Bond in Motion. Cars and other conveyances from the Bond movies.
• Convent Garden shops
• Stanfords Travel Book shop, new location
• Lunch at The Institute of Engineering and Technology employee Cafe
• Foyles Book store
• Wagamama Holborn for dinner
• 10576 steps, 12 flights

Tuesday

• Portobello Market
• Books for Cooks
• Police Museum in the City of London Guild Hall Galleries
• Borough Market, the Eldest's place for lunch
• Andina in Shoreditch, Peruvian food for Dinner
• 12442 steps, 33 flights

Wednesday

• Chiswick House and Gardens
• Lunch at Gail's bakery
• V and A Museum
• Holborn Whippet for real ale and drinks, a small Pete 2020 meetup was happening
• Dinner at Bill's
• 11306 steps, 21 flights

Thursday

• Postal Museum and Mail Rail train ride
• Francis Crick exhibit,  not worth the trip
• Camden Market, much changed, pasta for lunch there
• Chicken Shop for dinner
• 14003 steps, 27 flights

Friday

The Tower House by William Burges, now owned by Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin.

 Kyoto Garden, quite small. In Holland Park

 Walking Man by Sean Henry, also in Holland Park

 Ladder on Steeple, not quite a stairway to heaven.

• Leighton House Museum
• Kyoto Garden in Holland Park
• The Windsor Castle Pub, Kensington for lunch
•  8442 steps, 18 flights

Saturday

• 3:45 AM cab to Heathrow airport, SAS to Stockholm and then Newark
• 3:30 PM exiting Newark Terminal B
• 5685 steps, 5 flights