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0508 Emily looks at Nordic design for children at the V and A Museum for Childhood
May 8
All I know is we landed at Heathrow at 6:30am local time, and we had an entire day to push through without sleeping so we could minimize jet lag.
Fairly wiped out, we grabbed breakfast at the airport–some place called Giraffe. It was fine. After a mostly-understood conversation with a dude selling train tickets, we got a pair of Oyster cards on rode the the crowded tube for an hour and a half during morning rush hour. I was so loopy! I knew everyone was freshly awake and headed to work, but in my head it felt like it was 7 or 8 in the evening.
After a long walk through a nice park, we found our AirBnB. We got there a bit early so we had to wait for somebody to let us in and drop off our luggage. The girl who let us in was super nice. I guess it’s a company that manages our place, so this girl is part of a larger group whose job it is to go all over London letting people into their AirBnBs. She’s also an actress.
We had to keep ourselves busy while a separate cleaning crew came to freshen up the place, so Emily and I walked to the nearby V&A Museum of Childhood, an offshoot of the main V&A Museum closer to downtown. It was a cool place! It’s essentially a massive old aircraft hangar that’s been transformed into a museum dedicated to children’s toys and clothing across history. They have a special exhibit right now about Nordic design for children over the past century. It was PERFECT for us.
After burning through a few hours there, we went back to our place and snuck in a 3 hour nap. We were so loopy our heads were spinning. We actually spent some time in the park outside our place because the cleaning crew was still working, and that’s where we figured out that we weren’t going to make it through the day. The nap was super helpful though, so we ventured back out in search of dinner.
Duck & Waffle is a place I put on our list without realizing that in order to eat there you need to make a reservation like 3 weeks in advance. SO, we wandered over to a place called All Bar One instead. It was pretty good! We met a local couple there who we ended up chatting with at length. They made some suggestions for us and let us know which other restaurants on our list we might need to book in advance. Thanks Matt and Beth!
In one last-ditch spark of energy, we took a bus to a place called Motown for some late-night ice cream. It was good, but we really shouldn’t have done that.
0508 Emily looks at Nordic design for children at the V and A Museum for Childhood
May 8
All I know is we landed at Heathrow at 6:30am local time, and we had an entire day to push through without sleeping so we could minimize jet lag.
Fairly wiped out, we grabbed breakfast at the airport–some place called Giraffe. It was fine. After a mostly-understood conversation with a dude selling train tickets, we got a pair of Oyster cards on rode the the crowded tube for an hour and a half during morning rush hour. I was so loopy! I knew everyone was freshly awake and headed to work, but in my head it felt like it was 7 or 8 in the evening.
After a long walk through a nice park, we found our AirBnB. We got there a bit early so we had to wait for somebody to let us in and drop off our luggage. The girl who let us in was super nice. I guess it’s a company that manages our place, so this girl is part of a larger group whose job it is to go all over London letting people into their AirBnBs. She’s also an actress.
We had to keep ourselves busy while a separate cleaning crew came to freshen up the place, so Emily and I walked to the nearby V&A Museum of Childhood, an offshoot of the main V&A Museum closer to downtown. It was a cool place! It’s essentially a massive old aircraft hangar that’s been transformed into a museum dedicated to children’s toys and clothing across history. They have a special exhibit right now about Nordic design for children over the past century. It was PERFECT for us.
After burning through a few hours there, we went back to our place and snuck in a 3 hour nap. We were so loopy our heads were spinning. We actually spent some time in the park outside our place because the cleaning crew was still working, and that’s where we figured out that we weren’t going to make it through the day. The nap was super helpful though, so we ventured back out in search of dinner.
Duck & Waffle is a place I put on our list without realizing that in order to eat there you need to make a reservation like 3 weeks in advance. SO, we wandered over to a place called All Bar One instead. It was pretty good! We met a local couple there who we ended up chatting with at length. They made some suggestions for us and let us know which other restaurants on our list we might need to book in advance. Thanks Matt and Beth!
In one last-ditch spark of energy, we took a bus to a place called Motown for some late-night ice cream. It was good, but we really shouldn’t have done that.