Boys Weekend to London

CoVid meant that our planned 2020 trip to Faro didn't happy but we agreed to a nervous 2021 trip to London amidst rapidly rising CoVid cases although all of us would be protected by double vaccination.

The crew this year was me, Warren, Tim, Mark and Glen.

I travelled down by LNER East Coast arriving around lunchtime. We were quite to pick up the free ciders being offered outside the station.

We walked from the station to the Tate Modern via a few pubs and spent around an hour around the gallery which really wasn't to anyone's taste. We walked along the riverside and I walked back to KX whilst the rest took the tube. In the evening we wandered and drank around Coal Yards Drops before a fairly early night.

The next morning we headed to the V&A and spend a couple of hours at the gallery.

After a pub lunch we ran into a Freedom For All protest travelling from Trafalgar Square. Warren, Mark and Glen walked straight towards trouble whilst Tim and I headed in the opposite direction and had a pleasant drink on a riverboat pub.

More drinking in the evening near our Premier Inn hotel.

On Sunday we did a riverside walk from Canary Wharf to Tower of London stopping at every pub along the way. Heavy rain meant extended sheltering from the weather. Had lunch at the Ian McKellan owned pub The Grapes.

Another day with a fairly early and subdued finish. Long days and more drink than any of us are used to. 

On Monday morning I had work meetings to do online and then got a lunchtime train home.