British Museum, and Baker Street

Today was a fairly awesome day.  Actually it was a thoroughly awesome day. 

We woke up to a typical London day, overcast with intermittent rain and a temperature high of 14 degrees which meant our activities would be mainly indoors.

We hit the public transport pretty hard today and I'm sure we covered the majority of the Monopoly board eg. Kings Cross Station, Marylebone St, Regent St, Euston Station, Piccadilly and the list goes on.  I have to say we are loving the bus and train system, it is ridiculously easy to navigate so much so that even I can do it and those who know me know that I get lost in hotel foyers, much to Sean's amusement.

First stop was Kings Cross Station and the 9 3/4 platform from Harry Potter.  Yes it is between platforms  9 and 10 but its not really a platform, it's in the train terminal.

We then headed to the British Museum.  We had to get off at Russell Street Station.  It is so far underground that EVERYONE has to use a lift to get to the surface.  Upon arrival we skipped the queue due to Sean's disability.  This happens quite a lot.   He is a little uncomfortable with it but I think it's great.  The museum itself is very impressive and so were many of the exhibits.


From there it was off to Baker Street, the home of  Sherlock Holmes. As a pseudo fanboy of Sherlock Holmes, Sean was in heaven.  I thought it was pretty impressive too.  Recent incarnations of Sherlock Holmes are Detective Goren - Law and Order Criminal Intent (a Sherlock based character); and Sean now has the trifecta, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, and Law and Order Criminal Intent TV shows seeing the areas where the shows were filmed (New York) or where/what the characters were based on; Elementary (Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Lui); and Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman).  The museum was simply awesome.

We then caught a double decker home, again upstairs front row and we ended the day at the Local.  Nice!!

On a separate note, we kept seeing 'Mind the Gap' slogans on Underground signs, t-shirts, hoodies etc.  It wasn't until we caught a tube train that we understood what it meant.  Prior to the train stopping at a platform an announcement was made saying 'Mind the Gap'.  Turns out that at some stations there is a 40cm gap between the platform and the train.  So the announcement "mind the gap" is repeated to remind you not to fall into the gap between the platform and carriage. It was a little unnerving the first time I had to step over it.

2019-09-09 - Platform 9 3/4, British Museum, Baker St