A very good museum and a brilliant day - Monday 21st December

From the pen of Remus Brasier at 9.15pm on Monday 21st of December 2015 

Today we probably experienced the life of a British child in the Christmas holidays.  Today we went to the Princess Diana playground in Kensington Gardens, the London Transport Museum, Somerset House and absolutely all of it will be recounted in this, today's blog.

Let's start at the beginning (some say, it's a very good place to start) we got up out of bed and got dressed.  Not a lot of action in the first part of the morning, and I think you will agree.  What we did, whilst Mum and my favourite Aunty Flis went to Borough Market, we walked to the rather good playground.  It was amazing, the actual playground isn't just swings and slides but rather designed as an old fashioned ship made out of wood in which you can climb to the top of the crow's nest and from there it is a brilliant view.  I think it might just be the best playground in the world (and I'm not exaggerating).  So the time flew past whilst we were playing sword fights mainly.  

Then we (Raff and me) went with Aunty Flis to the London Transport Museum whilst Mum and Dad went to the Imperial War Museum.  Although this was actually my 2nd time going to it I was still looking forward to it very much. When we entered the desk lady gave us a stamp trail where you had to got to checkpoints throughout where you had to "stamp" the piece of paper in the designated place.  The stamp was actually a cut out of different shapes.  We started at the highest level and worked our way down.  We started at public transport for the 1800s which meant the underground (aka tube) hadn't been invented yet.  Then we worked our way down via the first double decker buses, early horse drawn carriages and many other exhibits, all the time collecting new stamps on the stamp trail.  

When we finally made it to the bottom we had the pleasure of driving a simulator, which we were responsible for driving a virtual tube between stations.   It was lots of fun.  After that we read a little bit more on the London taxi and its drivers needing to learn something called "the knowledge", which is the study of all London streets, pubs and monuments.  My favourite part of the museum (probably) would in fact be the exhibit from students from the London Academy of Arts study on future public transport.  It was absolutely brilliant and whilst most of the ideas will never come to real life, we can still dream.  

Then we went to a bar in Covent Garden where we met up with Kate, after a quick drink there we headed to M&S where we were looking for hilarious Christmas jumpers.  I do believe we found something even better....a Santa style hat with a beard.  

Then we went to the arranged meeting place, which was in fact Somerset House.  A grand building with a beautiful ice rink for Christmas which was great to look at.  

And that was today's blog. You may have noticed that today's was very, very big.