Bloomsbury
I report from a Starbucks in Bloomsbury, London. (I am justly punished, the coffee is undrinkable,) About to begin my onslaught on the British Museum. It's all of 10 minutes walk from the apartment - if you walk quite slowly and wait for the traffic lights before crossing the road, which is desirable.
The Endsleigh Apartments are two blocks from Euston and Russell Square tube stations. Ten minutes from Kings Cross & St Pancras. There is a bathroom and a kitchenette (in it's own tiny room). Kitchen has 2 hot plates and a microwave-convection oven. Enough pots & pans to really cook too. It's recently refurbished and is really quite nice. We can't hear the traffic from our apartment at the back of the building. I can highly recommend it to anyone staying in London. The twin studio is cheaper than 2 single rooms most places, including the more acceptable backpackers.
It's been very hot in London. Australian readers, stop snickering. 30'C in London is more unpleasant than 30' in Melbourne. Sticky too. Today we have a more reasonable low 20s.
Saturday I arrived and we went to the Crypt Cafe at St Martins in the Fields, followed by the National Portrait Gallery. Then home to eat because the West End on a Sat'dy Ni' is too busy for me.
Sunday was Brompton Oratory for Benediction & Vespers. The music was lovely (Palestrina, Gibbons,
Edit: later that morning. I was trying to post using the livejournal app on my iphone. You can only do short posts I gather, when I tried to scroll down further nothing happened except it sent the post off. Oops.
The music was lovely (Palestrina, Gibbons, etc.) but the Oratory itself is rather ugly I find. Very heavy and Baroque. The embroidered vestments worn by the (many) clergy were also rather beautiful, so a good time was had by all. We had a cup of tea in a cafe across the road, then made our way home before the V&A let out. Its best to walk back to Knightsbridge station, rather than joining the 1 million other tourists at South Kensington.