Thursday 24th April

We started our day back at the Victoria Coffee Shop for breakfast before heading out to the London Marathon Expo so G could pick up his bib. There was a big line in front of the official logo area for taking photos but we walked past this wall, there were no people, so I got G to quickly get a photo. G almost had an epic stuff-up with the marathon. When you pick up your bib they print it right there, when G went to pick up his T-shirt the people there noticed that his didn’t have a timer chip on his bib. The person who printed it had forgotten to put it on before they gave it to him! Lucky the T-shirt person noticed. Imagine running the whole marathon and not getting a finishing time—not OK.

Once we’d looked at everything and got a timer chip attached to G’s bib we caught the train to Canary Wharf and transferred to the ferry. G was going to be spending most his time in our hotel room off his feet and I thought this was a good way for him to be out and about without walking too much. I really enjoyed seeing London from the river, so from my point of view, it was a win.

I got off near the Tate Modern while G continued on to Embankment which was a tube ride from our hotel. I spent an hour or so wandering around the Tate Modern. They have 10 minute talks by volunteers at particular paintings and I happened upon one. The guy who did the talk was certainly passionate about art. I think it’s always good to listen to someone who is so passionate about their topic. I only have one photo to share which is of the freakish nightmare-inducing sculpture in one of the atriums which I’ll include here so you can all have giant spider nightmares too.

Afterwards I got lost in the Blackfriars station before extricating myself and making my way to Soho. I know a few of my readers are stationary fans so I will treat you to some photos of the piles of stationary at Choosing Keeping. While there I got myself a new journal to use once my current one is filled up. It’s the red one below and has my preferred grid pages.

I consulted my google map where I’d saved various places of interest and found I was just round the corner from Udderlicious so I decided I just had to treat myself to an ice cream cone, especially since the sun was out and shining. I chose biscoff and honeycomb—I do find it hard to go past anything honeycomb. It was yummy.

Dinner was udon noodles at Udon Maragame, which satisfied G’s carb loading requirements so we ate together.

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