London Still Rocks!

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...

Today, I was back with  Laurence Summers  and the  45+ Not Grumpies , for the rescheduled  tour  of the  Wallace Collection , yay! And what's more,  Helen  came to town.. complete with suggestions for the  Hurtigruten cruise  I've booked for later in the year, and which she's been on.. ;-) She's going on a different  one  next month. I took buses - the first was slightly delayed, but I still managed to get there in time. Almost. Her train was delayed, but she'd come early enough to get there first of anyone, it seems! Wow, it was a hot one though.. and as we stood outside initially, to talk about the ornate fountain, we could hear singing - seems there was a music festival nearby. Runs till tomorrow. Now, as to the fountain (which I didn't photograph) - I didn't photograph everything, having been here twice before with Meetups . And indeed, I remember Laurence himself talking about that fountain during another tour , of ...