Dec. 28th, 2017
Monday in Docklands
Dec. 28th, 2017 12:12 pmAnd in honour of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
helenraven's birthday, a report of the day we spent in Docklands, before our dinner date with her - which was last Monday: not Christmas Day, which, by virtue of being Christmas Day, I think of as not actually attached to any one day of the week, but Monday of last week, the last day of our visit to London. When we had seen helenraven on our same-time-previous-year visit, we had enthused to her about the Museum of London, and she had enthused right back at us about the Museum's Docklands branch. A day when we were due south of the river in the evening, and had agreed to meet for an early-evening drink with a professional contact who is based in the vicinity: it all fitted together.
We may not have found the most direct route to the museum, but I'm always happy to wander about and see what's to be seen. Here's the landmark at which we turned to cross the footbridge:
away from the cliffs of glass, and onto a waterfront lined with warehouses converted into bars and restaurants and finally the museum itself, No 1 Warehouse of the West India Docks.
( More beyond the cut - and more pictures, too. )
And we still had most of the next day in with the Bears before it was time to come home...
helenraven's birthday, a report of the day we spent in Docklands, before our dinner date with her - which was last Monday: not Christmas Day, which, by virtue of being Christmas Day, I think of as not actually attached to any one day of the week, but Monday of last week, the last day of our visit to London. When we had seen helenraven on our same-time-previous-year visit, we had enthused to her about the Museum of London, and she had enthused right back at us about the Museum's Docklands branch. A day when we were due south of the river in the evening, and had agreed to meet for an early-evening drink with a professional contact who is based in the vicinity: it all fitted together.We may not have found the most direct route to the museum, but I'm always happy to wander about and see what's to be seen. Here's the landmark at which we turned to cross the footbridge:
away from the cliffs of glass, and onto a waterfront lined with warehouses converted into bars and restaurants and finally the museum itself, No 1 Warehouse of the West India Docks.
( More beyond the cut - and more pictures, too. )
And we still had most of the next day in with the Bears before it was time to come home...