London Still Rocks!

Last Sun day, off with Museum, Art and Culture Socials for a tour of the Crypt Museum at All Hallows by the Tower. Might've been a thing for London Museums A-Z 's Dracula events, but it's pretty small and the museum put a strict limit on group numbers, so it booked up quickly. The WhatsApp group was entertainingly named Tomb with a View.. we were meeting in Costa Coffee Tower Vaults . My walk took me past the Tower - oh, it's ages since I was last here, and I do love it: Well, the organiser, Camilla, managed to beat me to it for once! And as the others arrived, we chatted, with a very good view of both the Tower and Tower Bridge : We headed over to the church in due course.  We were let off on our own, and people made their way through at their own pace. I have to say, they have a fascinating range of exhibits! Like a well-preserved bit of Roman floor: Roman tombstones: Whoopee, another scale model! Roman London: Gosh, this panel depicts one of the Dukes of Aquitai...

Now in the midst of three days in a row of Meetup , it's been a London Museums from A-Z (LoMAZ) weekend - yesterday was their bimonthly birthday bash, starting in Benugo Waterloo . The buses were playing with me, first not coming, then on their way.. as I told the group, I'd be fashionably late. And so it proved, with me arriving about 10 minutes after the scheduled time. Still ahead of most of the group though, who dribbled in gradually.. well done to the day's principal organiser for getting there first and securing a table! As we chatted, we unanimously decided that if there were to be a walk at all, as planned, it'd be within the station where we then were, due to the rain. And then our uber-organiser (Jonny) spotted the Well & Boot at the end of the concourse and decided to give that a try. So over there we schlepped, got a round in - I asked the barman whether he had Sauvignon Blanc and he said, "yes, would you like some?" - and spent a convivi...