I remember being rather disappointed with the Natural History Museum on my first visit there on a school trip. There were lots of tired looking stuffed animals that didn’t capture my imagination. There was however one part of the museum that blew me away and that was the museum’s Whale Hall. At the time it [...]
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The Blue Whale Hall
13 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2014
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Summer Blends Into Autumn
This bank holiday was a strange one for me. It started off with a houseful and I was more or less confined to upstairs at my home. The boys had taken over my living room once again for a two day Napoleonic war-game. They no longer have to crawl on the floor as two 8ft [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 26th 2014
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A Room with a View
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 25th 2014
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Sweet Dreams…
…from Mercure Kensington
I happen to like the sounds of the city
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 23rd 2014
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London – Day Four
The breakfast was totally chaotic. On arrival there was no juice, fruit bowls or cereal bowls. I pointed out there were no bowls and the waitress said she would get some. I waited five minutes and nothing happened… I gave up and went to fetch my side plate and put the fruit (strawberries, raspberries and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2014
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London – Day Three
There was a bit of a kerfuffle as we entered the breakfast room. The man in front of us was insisting his room was booked off on the breakfast sheet. When we were seated a man came and sat next to us and when asked his room number he used the same room number as [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2014
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London – Day Two
The breakfast spread was nice but the service was typical of a London hotel. The toast didn’t arrive and had to be re-ordered.
Our first port of call for the day was the Natural History Museum. We got there before the museum was open and there was already a queue to get in. When the gates [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2014
