Mon, Aug 24: London:
A really dreadful day today. Rainy, windy, and cold. Undaunted, we headed out with our laundry to
a wash-and-fold place to drop it off.
The valet service here in the hotel is really expensive. 8.50 pounds for a tee shirt. That equates to about $12.00 per tee shirt. Yikes!
I brought a little bottle of Tide with me and washed out my tops, sockies
and underwear and hung them to dry. They
usually dried overnight and I would use the blow dryer to speed things up a
little. The rest of our laundry (jeans,
Mike’s tee shirts and underwear) we dropped off at the wash-and-fold. It’s based on weight and will cost us 20
pounds—about $30. Expensive, but not as
bad as the hotel. After dropping off our
laundry, we continued on to our favorite café and enjoyed a leisure
breakfast. Then back to the hotel. Mike not feeling so great. His sinuses are killing him. No wonder, since it's cold and rainy with
humidity of 96%. He wanted to go to the
Imperial War Museum today, but not sure if he feels well enough. We hung around for a while at the hotel and
then headed out. We took the bus this time.
There’s a bus stop right in front of the hotel, so very convenient. Only three stops and we were at our stop for
the museum. A short walk in the rain and
we were there. A very impressive museum
with state-of-the-art exhibits. After we
had our fill of the museum we struggled back to our bus stop trying to find our
way through all kinds of road construction and a roundabout to deal with. But we made it to our stop okay and in a
couple of minutes our bus showed up. We
got off right at Blackfriars Pub, so stopped there for dinner. Back to our hotel and relaxed the rest of the
evening.
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| Imperial War Museum |
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| Back at Blackfriars and a glass or two of Chardonnay. Is there a pattern here? |
