Got up, quick shower and down to breakfast, then I put my backpack on and toddled off for the day's entertainment.
First I headed to Lambeth North tube station on the Bakerloo line again, and headed for the Imperial War Museum. This place is big, and has imposing 15" naval guns at the entrance!
Like the majority of museums in London, they are free to enter (one of the few good things that the Labour government did!). It is pretty packed, with the main hall having the large vehicles, and then downstairs there are the special exhibitions - the ones there now are one about the British Home Front in WW2 and the Fromelles mass grave from WW1.
The permanent exhibitions include First World War (including a trenches exhibit), Between the Wars, Second World War and Conflicts since 1945, among many others.
By the time I reached the Second World War exhibit, I was plum museumed out! lol
I wandered back to the tube station and then headed back into the centre of London for some lunch and a wander. Lunch was at Crème de la Crêpe in Covent Garden, then I wandered around looking through the stalls and down to the various outdoorsy shops, where I bought my new hat, a Tilley T3:
From there, I headed over to Leicester Square and bought myself a ticket to TT3D: Closer to the Edge - a 3D movie about the Isle of Man TT motorcycle races - very good movie it is too!
After the movie I went for another wander and ended up at the Duke of Argyll pub in Soho (Brewer St, funnily enough!)
Being a Samuel Smith's pub, no music, no sports, no tv - just nice, inexpensive beer - 3 pints later and I needed some food! I went back to Leicester Square and a Bella Italia to get a Pollo e Spinacci Calzone for dinner, and then back to the hotel to shower and cool my aching feet!
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