Adventures | London and the British Museum

Hello there!

Before starting this blog I knew that I wanted to have a stream of posts talking about my travelling adventures so I thought I would start off with my day trip to London with dad last Friday.

I find myself going up to London quite a lot, especially with mum where we like to go up, have a nose around the shops before queueing up in Leicester Square to get some half price last minute tickets to see a West End show. I haven't been up to London with dad since before Christmas so we thought we'd go up again and dad had an interest in seeing the British museum.

We started the day with getting an early morning train to London and we arrived at Waterloo around 11ish. Then after trying to squeeze through the hustle and bustle of the station, dad and I took the first underground tube to Tottenham Court Road. From there we stopped at the first Cafe Nero we passed for a spot of brunch.

At first I didn't really know what to expect from the British Museum - I've been to many museums in London so I wasn't too sure how different this was going to be from the others. But I can admit that this museum isn't exactly specialised in one thing: it's a mix of everything in history, going across the ancient Greeks and Romans to the Victorian era. 

However as much as what we saw was interesting, dad and I didn't know exactly what we were looking for and we got very lost very quickly. There probably was a route to follow that takes you from one end of the building to the other, but we took our own route and found that we weren't exactly going in chronological order.

Despite getting lost, I found it interesting for what it was.

"Don't blink!"

It was round about lunch time by the time we left the museum and to our luck there was a little corner pub on the other side of the road called The Museum Tavern where we stopped for a drink and lunch.

After lunch dad and wondered how we were going to spend the rest of the day. We took a walk towards Leicester Square, passing all the theatres and decided that we should go and see a film in one of the many cinemas there. We stopped in a couple of stores along the way including Forbidden Planet where dad bought me a Captain America mug and a fancy dress hire store called Angels. But outside one of the cinemas in Leicester Square, I found my very own idol's hand prints on the ground outside one of the cinemas: Dame Judi Dench!! It was enough for me to fangirl over it and get dad to take a photo of me with it. And beside Judi was John Hurt.

Out of all the screenings dad and I looked at, we decided to watch Terminator Genisys in IMAX. There was a bit of a wait before the film started so dad and I went to one of the pubs for another pint. Now neither of us have seen anything in IMAX before so we didn't know what to expect.

But it was weird. I mean crazily weird because throughout the film it genuinely felt like I was there in the scene. I found myself flinching every time there was an explosion or something was flying in my direction. But IMAX is incredible - incredibly expensive but seriously incredible in effects! We had to wear 3D glasses that were a little uncomfortable after the first half hour. It was shown on a large screen and no matter where you sat in the cinema, it felt like the actors were standing directly in front of you.

I admit this right now but I haven't actually seen any of the Terminator films from start to finish. I know I have watched the first half of one of the older films (I don't even know which one it was) but they've never really caught my attention. However this one I really enjoyed. It sat comfortably in the middle of having enough action and an entertaining storyline, despite the Hollywood clichés (which I do love!). I won't give too much away about the film but the extra clip during the credits more or less gave you a hint that there may be another film coming up.

I think the weirdest part was walking back through Leicester 

Square after seeing IMAX. It was so surreal to take in the buildings around me and the people we passed. Dad and I found ourselves laughing as we tried to get out bearings back!

And soon the day ended with us heading back to Waterloo station and jumping back on the first train home.

I love having regular day trips up to London whether it's spontaneous or planned out and this one was a good day. Especially as the weather held out for us!

But that's it for me now! I hope that if anyone reads this - anyone out there - enjoyed reading this post. And if you're in denial on seeing the new Terminator film then I can safely say that it'll be worth your money!

Hope you have a lovely weekend and I'll be back next week with a new post. I'm thinking a review is in order!

Goodbye for now!

Yours, Georgia x