Edited to add: I’m finishing this post up at Heathrow, waiting for our plane back to Melbourne via Hong Kong. We’ve had the most wonderful trip and the recaps will probably spread out over the next few months, if my previous track record is anything to go by.

Saturday 26th April 2025

Today I had breakfast at the hotel then caught the tube to Hempstead for the Hempstead Heath Parkrun. I hadn’t been feeling that great sinceI got to London but finally worked out I probably had allergies and started taking antihistamines. This was to be my first run since arriving. It was only 5K but it was a hard 5K, with some quite steep sections. I made my way around and my watch downgraded my VO2max based on my performance. Hempstead Heath is a lovely wooded area in London and the surrounding streets are gorgeous.

Returning to the hotel, worn out from the exercise I took a nap. I woke up feeling refreshed, got a porchetta and broccoli baguette from Fortitude Bakery then got in the line for the British Museum. This was the line for people with tickets and it stretched down the street and around the corner. I think it took about 40 mins for me to clear security.

With a place like the British Museum I think you need to go in with a plan because it is so huge, and there is so much to see. I had downloaded their three hours at the museum trail to my phone and that’s what I did. I really loved the time I spent here. Even better would be to live close by to a museum like this so you could go regularly and just do a couple of galleries at a time. I think I could spend a day at least in the ANE galleries.

Museums? Love or loathe them?