Elementary 7/20

Saturday morning, Liz and I decided to head to Covent Garden to check out the shops and the atmosphere. As we walked past the sign for the Bakerloo line, she casually mentioned that she still need to get to Baker’s Street before she went home. Since I’d heard that the lines at the Sherlock Holmes Museum were brutal, and it was still the early morning, I suggested we just head there then, so off we went.

 

Sure enough, there was already a line when we got to 221b Baker’s Street, but it was moving fast, and we were in within 20 minutes, which was a stark contrast to the over 2 hours the rest of the group had waited in the week before. The museum was fun, set up as the home of Holmes on the first two floors, and then hosting dummies and props on the third floor from many of Holmes’s adventures. There was also a collection of some of the letters written to Sherlock Holmes over the years. This both amused and worried me. People do understand how fiction works, right?

After the museum, we headed to Covent Garden, as originally planned, and then went on to the store Forbidden Planet. FP is basically the most amazing store for geeks like me. Actually, I ended up seeing a FP in Edinburgh, Dublin, Cardiff, and London, though I only went in the ones in Cardiff and London, and London was the main and the largest. I had trouble not buying the whole store, but I restrained myself.

When we’d left that morning, they were calling for 80 degrees, so I’d dressed appropriately, but by the time lunchtime rolled around, it was down to 68 degrees and I was freezing. The heat warnings on the Tube mocked us as we made our way home to change and to plan lunch. Liz and I both were craving salad, so we looked up salad bars in London. We found three that looked amazing, and all were closed on weekends! Why does the city mock us sometimes? We ended up just making a late lunch/early dinner at home, but we capped the day by meeting up with others from our group back in London and split cider down by the Thames, which is one of my favorite memories of our time in London.