Pub – It's all about the coffee

After breakfast we headed up to Liverpool St Station where I grabbed a SIM card for Emma’s phone. She is now online again and very happy about it. She will likely be hitting Instagram and snapchat like crazy.

Got over to Camden, and as expected it was just pumping with people. I bought two T-shirts as I think I might have packed too many socks and not enough shirts (I’m not commenting on the tech…). Sharon found on of her favourite stores and picked up some pictures. I was chatting to the store vendor about the fantastic London weather and the fact that it always seems to be hot when I’m here and never cold. He himself is planning to travel to Australia in August. During our chat he uttered the most most London comment ever when discussing the propensity for London to be wet : “it don’t rain in pubs”

One thing I really wanted at Camden was another lamb jalfrezi burger. I had one last year and I thought it was one of the greatest burgers I’d ever had. It’s London through and through, a wonderful food fusion packed with flavour.

At about 2pm I left Sharon and Emma to do some more shopping and headed off to the Postal Museum. I Got off at kings cross and walked the mile or so to the museum. The footpaths went from frustratingly overcrowded to deserted ones very quickly. A pleasant walk in the shade.

The postal museum and mail train are actually in two seperate locations, separated by about 50m. Naturally they are in a area of London surrounded by Royal Mail infrastructure as the exhibition is part of that infrastructure. The museum and train were way better than I expected. I thought it would be just a quick ride in the train, but it stops along the way to show you a few things and play some video. I had a ride booked at 4.15, however I got there early and hardily anyone was there so they let me on early.

The museum also has a “ride” where you can pretend to be a mail sorter in a train carriage and times how quickly you can correctly sort all the mail. A bit of fun for the afternoon.

Inside the Mail Rail train. Royal Mail stopped using it in 2003

Whilst I was there Sharon and Emma continued the shopping and had ice-cream at Chin Chin again where they make it on the spot with liquid nitrogen. This was a Mango Lassie with coconut yoghurt and bee pollen honeycomb.

Other exhibits in the museum.

After a break in the apartment for a few hours it was off to Borough Markets to find some dinner and walk around. It was a magic evening here in London. A few of the pics below. The old ruin is Winchester Place.