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"Catboy's choice" day.

I had a gift vouycher from my birthday for a Science themed afternpoon tea in at the Ampersan hotel, so this was the opportunity to use it.

So we arrived at the hotel had a choice of menus, mostly similar although the vegetarian option seemed nicver then the non-veggie so I went for that. flickums liked the look of the kids menu. For experiment 1, we made lemonade. The lemon juice, water and citric acid/bicirbinate of soda mixture were placedin a beaker... Well, most of it. I seem to be a bit clumsy. It was tasty but didn't seem all that fizzy. Also it was blue! Ithnk that made it more sciency. For the most part, the food was afternoon tea far. Rolls, quiches, scones etc. the more sciency stuff included a macron with a pipette of sauce that could be squeezed in and freeze dried pineapple and raspberry topping, a planet shaped ice cream cake dessert-y thig and a cake with a rocket ship. We also had a tin with chocolate dinosaurs that could be unearthed with a brush.

This was just around the corner from the Kensifngton museums, so I thought I'd visit. I had a quick look in the natural history museum, but the science museum has always been the one I love. Naturally I look at the space stiuff, before gravitating to the aircraft section on the top floor. It always makes me feel comfortable.

There was a video game exhibition on so I thought I'd give it a shot. To be honest I'm nto always impressed with the special exhibitions they have. The science fiction thing we went to a few years back was a disappontment. This one was not so bad. There was a decent slection and the inherent interactivity of games makes it a lot of fun. Felt the urge to try out some VR games and complete a level of Lemmings.

Returned to the hotel and prepared for the evening entertainment. Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution.

The venue is fantastic. It's the old council chambers of the LCC and GLC so even when walking in has a vibe very similar to a courthouse. Lots of marble and pillars with a big staircase. We didn't want to splash out on jury tickets although it seems that the people who did get a very special experience, being able to vote on gulty or not guilty (although I've  later learned that the vote is actually rigged). The play itself is very good, with an excellent cast of very experienced actors. Very gripping and it ends with the villain going into classic Christie "Evil Voice". Not 100% sold on the resolution though. Seems a bit too complicated a ploy. Still, had a lot of fun!

Nottingham is well known for two things. One of them is as the setting for Robin Hood. The other is as the home of Warhammer. A franchise that's actually worth twice the entire tourist revenue of Nottingham.

So, because Ruth and Simon are big Warhammer nerds, and so is flickums , they went to Nottingham for Simon's birthday, and we joined them. I'm not a Warhammer fan so I was just along for the ride.

First port of call was an escape room. An officially licenced Warhammer escape room. That was originally planned for Saturday but there was some sort of booking cock-up so it got moved. No problem. Our plan was to chill in the hotel for the evening so we could easily do that some other time, Our host was a Warhammer fan - unsurprisingly - and well informed. He told us that the room was painted using Citadel paints.  I presume they get them in bulk, because it would need a lot of those tiny pots.

The setting was that we were in a ship that was about to crash and we need to power up and get to the escape pod. They really did do a good job of making it feel like a spaceship. Simon was away right at the start and seemed to storm through the clues. First room was very snug and cosy, but it didn't take us long to get the door open and into the next room. Door was blocked so we had some crawling through tunnels to do - honestly this was very physical for an escape room. I felt I didn't do a lot, but I did at least solve one of the puzzles.

Next day we went to Warhammer World. Had a look around, and saw the exhibition. I'm not into the game but I really can appreciate the level of detail in the modelwork. Finished up and went to Bugmans - the onsite bar/restaurant. I'm a little disappointed that they don't have the in-character blurb on the menu items any more. Last time I was there I had a great time reading the menu. Still, the food was pretty good.

Went back, deposited flickums in the hotel to decompress a little and I went into town to mooch with Ruth and Simon. Found a very nice little shop that sold geek tat and had some quirky goth type stuff downstairs. I found an additional present for Flickums and just had to smuggle it home.

We'd gone past an Afghan restaurant ad steakhouse on the way to the escape room and I liked the look of it so we decided to try it out. So I ordered. Turned out what I wanted wasn't on the menu, Flick ordered. Turned out what she wanted wasn't on the menu. We apparently found the only steakhouse in Nottingham with no steak! Or lamb. Or anything except chicken, as far as I could tell. We asked for a bit more time and decided they really should have told us they were out of everything before we came in!

Eventually found a very nice Turkish restaurant, and had a very nice grilled see bass, but I was a little disappointed because I was looking forward to something with that middle eastern spiciness.

Still, it was a nice weekend. These are definitely some of the people I absolutely love spending time with.

Finally got round to using my christmas present, of first class travel on a steam train with breakfast. Didn't actually book until after wedding, and by that point, the service was fully booked all summer, but we booked for late September. I was delighted to wake up to a lovely sunny autumn day.

Felt we should dress up for it. flickums was resplendent in her 40's dress and hat, while I wore a pin striped suit and bowler hat. I really need to lose weight. Could barely squeeze into this suit.

The Embsay and Bolton Abbey steam railway. is not a million miles away but did require a reasonable drive so we set off early. As it turned out this was far too early, so we stopped at McDonalds for a coffee and a Coke. "Are you going to a wedding?" asked the girl at McDonalds. She seemed disappointed that we weren't.

So we arrived after a windy drive down a narrow country lane, got to the station and found that  the Virgin Experience voucher had given us the wrong station. Fortunately the right station was only a 10 minute drive away, although I could have avoided a tedious narrow road drive. Good job we were early. Still had plenty of time to admire the train. An L&YR class 27 0-6-0 tender locomotive in Black British Rail livery. Apparently on loan from the East Lancashire railway. While we were admiring the train, people admired our outfits.

So we boarded. The waiter liked that we dressed up and we got talking about cosplay. Nice chap. It's a shame he was working since I could have chatted to him all day. So, we were served a breakfast. It was rather nice. And we set off, through the Yorkshire countryside, where we saw many sheep, and, after a short trip were back to the station we'd originally stopped at. We had a short time to look around. Many people admired our outfits.

Considered getting a book - a Christmas railway mystery - but decided i didn't want to carry it around so would but it at the giftshop in Bolton Abbey station.

So we got back on the train. Went on a ride back to the start. The waitress also said she liked our outfits. Got off. A few more people admired our outfits. Went to the gift shop to buy a book. It was closed. Ooops. Oh well, at least we know the way to the other station. Drove back there to buy the book.

Flickums had the terribly clever idea of finding a farm shop so we set off again down Yorkshire's windy roads to get there. There was some consternation as a big coach needed to get past a big tanker truck. Still, they manged it after some negotiation and we carried on. Feel I overspent at the farm shop, but this is something I tend to do at these palces. Curse me for being a foodie!

So that was a find way to spend a mornign and afternoon. Weather was great. It's a shame we were the only people to dressup but at least we got lots of admiring comments from strangers.

Finally achieved the task that eluded us last time we were here! We have visited Conwy castle. Decided to book ahead this time because last time we couldn't get in.

As it turns out it probably wasn't necessary. I think the problem was the previous time we were mid pandemic and there were a lot of restrictions. So we finally saw the castle. It has many towers and I decided not to climb all of them.  Really nice views of Wales.

We had a lot of time left parking so flickums took us on a a 30 minute boat trip. Which was a terrible clever idea because this was when it started to rain. So we looked out of the window and saw the sights along the River Conwy. All fun...

Then I based the side of my car on a raised bit of kerb. Ooops.  A nice man returned the bit that fell off. I really need to take Arachnia to a body shop one of these days though.

Pondered having another go at the tramway. Felt that the queue was still a bit long. Might have given it a go if it was a little less late but they don't offer returns after 3pm and I wasn't sure we'd get tickets in time. It's a shame though. "Riding the Great Orme" really sounds like something from Dune.

Decided instead to return to where we're staying. We chose an expensive place because we wanted the ability to chill, so we chilled with board games. Gave Disney Sidekicks a go. The instructions weren't very clear. It really needs a glossary explaining what henchmen are in the game. The rules are all over the place. We won, but only because we don't understand the rules.

So that wraps up another day. Early start tomorrow so we'll try and clean up the place this evening.

So, finally home and some final thoughts.

Bali is a wonderful country! Fascinating scenery and the people were lovely.

Really pleased we took the hotel we did. I liked the rooftop pool - even if we didn't use it as much as I'd have liked. What I really like is that we were outside the somewhat synthetic gated community hotel complex.

Seems we were there in the off-season. Meant we had a lot of things to ourselves but didn't meeet new people.

Feel I spent way too long sitting in public transport. There was the 4 hour flight to Turkey, the 12 hour flight to Bali, the same on the way back. Also several long car rides. I spent over 24 hours just sitting in cars!

Find the design of buildings rather odd. A lot of them don't seem to have thresholds. The hotel didn't have a front door. Just walk up the steps and there's a reception desk. They have walls and ceilings but nothing at the front. The airport is similar. The airport could really do with being an enclosed place with air conditioning.

Really wish I had more of the local food. Indonesian cuisine is quite tasty.

Scooters are very popular. Given the nature of traffic I'm not suprised. they can to some degree zip around the traffic. Interestingly, the toll road causeway has a completely separate isolated lane from the main traffic - probably to allow a minimum speed limit to be maintained. Traffic is pretty horrible though.

It was a much busier trip than we were planning. My plan was to spend a lot of time chilling out, but there were things we just had to do!

Feel I want to give hot humid countries a break for a few years though. It's not just the heat and humidity, but the insects. Maybe Reykjavik should be the next place on my wishlist.

We wanted another snorkelling trip - this time with a shipwreck. And possible turtles!

After the previous early morning start for snorkelling, I insisted the next one start at a more reasonable time. So we booked a start time of 8am. That was the one concession I demanded. I wanted to start the day with a solid breakfast before a 3 hour drive. The day before the trip, we got a message saying "I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further" or words to that effect. I was not happy about this. In fact I was a total grump for most of the drive up there until flickums chastised me.

Eventually though we arrived at the seaside town where the shipwreck was. And we went past it. and further along very windy, bumpy roads. Just as I was wondering when this torture would end, we suddenly arrived at our destination! My mood improved rapidly here! Once again it was in one of those little Balinese boats, which I have since learned is called a jukung,

So we clambered aboard and set off. Language barrier meant that the instructions weren't all that clear,  but the first stop I think was just a look at the fishes thing. Jumped in. And my snorkel wasn't working, Not sure if I was using it wrong or what but I didn't seem to be getting any air through. Fortunately we had a spare. So swam around. Saw fishes. Got back aboard the boat. Flickums despite being too small and not really bendy enough for this managed to get in to the water as well.

Next stop was turtle spotting. This one I was a little wary of because there were jellyfish around. I have no idea what sort of jellyfish and whether they were stingy but I didn't want to find out. Eventually though we saw a turtle, and waved. He waved back.

Stop three was the underwater temple. I have no idea why the temple is underwater but it was a nice spot to stop and there were a lot of fish. The captain gave us a bottle full of bread and encouraged us to squirt it out. The fish really went for it! We have loads of them come to us! Fantastic!

Finally it was the shipwreck! There doesn't seem to be a lot of information about this ship. Nobody is even sure if it's Japanese. Honestly if I didn't know it was there I don't think I would have even recognised it as a ship. It's surprisingly close to the beach though. We could simply swim back to shore after looking at it!

As a reef - even an artificial one - there were a lot of fish around. No "Nemo"s though.

After that we got in car for an epic journey back. The bumpy road didn't seem so bad when it was less endless. Journey was a little longer though since we had traffic. Traffic in Bali is horrible, but eventually we got back had a dip in the pool followed by lunch and cocktails. Finally the Ayam Goreng was on the menu! And it really was tasty.

Final event of the day was the Devdan show at the theatre. For some absolutely inexplicable reason, despite it being a 5 minute drive, we were picked up 90 minutes in advance, No explanation as to why was given. We were the only pickups (although oddly there were 4 groups dropped off at the end) so we had 90 minutes of doing absolutely nothing until the show started. I spent the time looking around the area.

The theatre is in what's essentially a gated compound of tourist hotels.  There's a whole shopping area full of clothing stores, souvenir stores, and restaurants. You could spend an entire week here and never see any of actual Bali. I think in retrospect, I'm pleased we didn't have a hotel in this area. It all feels a little too fake.

Still, the show started. It was really quite impressive. We were in the second row, right in the middle! Not bad! Show had a loose plot of a couple of kids leaving a tour group and digging through a magic chest for artefacts that took them to traditional Indonesian cultural events. Lots of dances and aerials stuff. Based on traditional dances but probably pretty loosely. Was really impressed with some aerial strap artists!

So it was good fun, but not sure if a 60 minute show was worth the 90 minute wait!

That almost wraps up our holiday. Our beach bag that we picked up cheaply years ago in Zakynthos finally gave up but we don't need it any more. One more event tomorrow before a fairly late flight. They offered to pick us up at 6am again! Thankyou to my darling wifey for being very insistent that they pick us up at 8!

Chilled out morning. Yesterday was a little hectic so we had a chilled out morning by the pool. Then booked the rest of the week's excursions.  I'm a little worried we might be a bit busy now. I don't think we'll have a lot more pool-time. But I want to visit Ubud. We both want to go on the "night safari". flickums is really keen on spending a day snorkelling around shipwrecks and another day being a ghoul.

Visited the Cheshire Cat Café. Not its actual name. Just a café with a Disney Cheshire cat outside. But they sell Blue tea, so flickums insisted we try it. Flickums doesn't drink tea though so I was obliged to drink it,

So this evening's activity was a temple tour and fire dance, With an unscheduled side order to a coffee shop.

The driver/guide had a wealth of information. Wasn't sure how to take this at first. It seemed a little like Grampa Simpson's rambles, but I  actually warmed to him quite quickly. He mentioned Kopi Luwak - coffee beans that have been through a mongoose and is apparently extremely expensive in other countries (although from research he was talking about wild coffee bean prices rather than farmed), but just around £2 here. I was intrigued. He said he knows a place. So we went to this shop that was essentially a coffee showroom. they talked briefly about the plants used, and they then gave us a tasting platter of 15 different coffees and the option to buy a cup of Kopi Luwak.

I wasn't a fan. It tasted like mongoose poop.

Still, the avocado coffee was quite nice so I bought a pack of that. And they had some intriguing looking chocolate.

Next stop was Uluwatu temple. Our guide picked up a stick - apparently very important for dealing with monkeys. Monkeys are, by all accounts, thieving bastards and will steal phones, hats and especially glasses, if given half a chance. They manage to get away with it by being kinda cute. We did see some monkey-chewed glasses and we saw a monkey playing with some recently stolen sunnies. Flickums warmed to our guide after he heroically fended off the monkeys

Uluwatu means corner of the cliff. This is a very large Hindu clifftop temple. We were warned in the information to wear long trousers and cover our shoulders but the do provide sarongs for visitors who aren't aware of the rule. The temple itself is really quite impressive - and has some lovely views across the sea.

The evening was wrapped up with a Kecak fire dance show. a play that involved lots of people chanting "takataka" and apparently involved a princess being kidnapped by a demon that had disguised itself as a deer to lure the prince away, There was a money involved somehow as well. Yeah... Didn't really follow it, even though I had a plot summary. It was entertaining in its way, but the seats were really uncomfortable and I was pretty glad when it's over. Glad we saw it but mainly so I can say I've had the experience.

The local insect population seems to have taken a liking to me. I am very bitten.

Honeymoon time! First holiday with my wonderful wife, flickums ! Of course I've been on holiday with Flickums before but not as a wife

But first the epic flight to Bali! First stop was 4 hours to Istanbul. A very modern spacious airport that we could tell they were very proud of, because we spent 20 minutes driving around in the plane before we stopped at a gate.

Spent a couple of hours getting food and drink and chilling in the airport before the next leg - 12 hours to Bali! Long flights are not fun. Still, we arrived at the hotel, had a slight miscommunication regarding room service regarding food, stopped at a Circle K for food, and relaaaax!!!! Hotel is lovely, with air conditioning, a large bath and a rainfall shower! Washing all the travel off is such a relief!

Day 1 was a chill out day.

We went to the pool. Went to the beach swam and had cocktails. Had a very nice lunch. Then got a bit lost on the way back. The route I thought we took instead took us to come government building. We went for a slightly roundabout route before we found a road back to where we'd come from. At this point, Flick's sandal broke. As luck would have it, there was a shop selling sandals right there. So we bought some more sandals.

Booked a bunch of excursions. Sadly it seems my credit card has been blocked because booking excursions looks like fraud to Halifax. And can't really fix it because international calls are expensive and Skype is rubbish (and don't get me started on Microsoft's password policies!). Oh well. I have cash. Although I'm depleting that rapidly.

In the evening we booked the first of our wedding gifts. Except we cheated a little. The gift was dinner on the beach. The thing is, we saw a very nice romantic sunset cruise 5 course dinner instead. Can we consider a boat to be a beach? It is right next to the sea after all.

So, we were picked up from our airport. Balinese drivers probably aren't the worst, but they're very pushy. Was still a fairly nice drive though and we got to look at some of the country. Arrived at the boat, taken aboard and it turns out we were the only customers. Nice that they still provide dinner when it's just two people. So we had the boat, staff, and band all to ourselves. Their band's repertoire was fairly modest. They knew Beatles songs and a few others, and anything they lacked they made up for by being friendly.

Menu was a little fish Heavy for flickums - starter was a deep fries prawn thing, and there was fish as art of the main, Also the Satay sauce on the second course wasn't really to Flick's taste, But the pumpkin soup was great! And there was some stuffed chicken and beef in a tangy sauce for the main. Dessert was crème brulee. Absolutely delicious.

Was fun having a whole boat to ourselves. Also nice to see some party boats go by. Some of them saw us and waved at us waving at them (I don't know who initiated the waving).

So, that was day 1. Low key but we didn't want to do a lot,

I really do like the West Country! They have some of my favourite things! Trains, cider, seas, gorgeous countryside and friends getting martried!

West Trek: The Motion Picture

It's a shame it's so far away but we have two people to share the driving and a Katiebug to keep us company. Plus we get to stop at Gloucester services and raid the farm shop! And so we did! We picked up a Katiebug at the station and headed south. Stopped at services. I was persuaded to have Fish and Chips. Not sure why... I should have waityed until we were in a coastal area. We did have to wait a while though. First there was a wait for chips. New chips were brought out, two people were served, and they ran out of peas...

But we ate. We continued onwards. Hermoine the evil Satnav decided to take us around the back roads of Ilfracombe to get to the hotel.

Nice hotel. Bit of a grotty area. The nearby boarded up hotels don't really add to the character. Tiny little room but it had 4 walls and a bed. And a window! And a nice bar. Although they didn't have any lemonade. Well, they had the dregs of a bottle but it was flat. Still, they served some nice beer. Went for a walk and saw the sea. Not really a swimming beach here, but a good place to get dashed against rocks. Apparently the beach is through the tunnels, but they charge admission.

West Trek 2: The Satnav Wrath of Catboy

We went to see the Aquarium. It's a nice little place, dedicated to showing off the local fish species, fromt he source of the river down all the way to the sea. That gives a remarkable amount of variety, inclusing starfish, dogfish and even an octopus!

Had a look at boats in the harbour. The boats were all sitting on the beach because this is low tide in a part of the country that gets some of the largest tidal ranges in the world. Had an ice cream because flickums  likes buying me ice cream. And went to see the lifeboat.

I've always liked lifeboats! The RNLI is an important institution for anyone who grew up near the sea. Flickums isn't interested in lifeboats, but I am and so was Katiebug so I had a friend to geek out with. There was a nice man to tell us all about the launch system, because the RNLI people love talking about their boats, and I like hearing about them. It's a Shannon class (The big RNLI boats are named after rivers) pushed out on a trailer by a tractor. There's a turntable for pointing it the right way. The trailer has hefty catapillar tracks. They also have a D class inflatable which is less impressive but actually gets a lot more use.

Went to the brewery where they made the nice beer I'd had the day before but nobody was in.

Decided to go to nice pub for lunch where I had a cocktail in a tentacle glass (Kraken Rum based hence the glass), and ordered food. Apparently they were out of ham egg and chips but weren't able to tell us whether this was because of a shortage of ham, egss, chips or a combination of the above. They also couldn't provide a bacon cheeseburger but a bacon burger or a cheeseburger were doable. Food took forever to arrive. We weren't all that impressed by the place.

Went to the beach. Surprisingly busy but it was a very mild October day and half term holiday. Plus it's good surfing beach, and British surfers are a hardy bunch because they really need to be!

Went for a drive to the Lynton and Barnstable railway. Hermione the evil satnav decided to take us through countless narrow country roads to get there before dumping us in the middle of Barnstaple. Rather foolishly I assumed that he Lynton and Barnstaple railway shop would be anywhere near the Lynton and Barnstaple railway. Apparently not. Also apparently it was too late by this point. Decided to chill back at the hotel.

It turned out Liam was arriving many hours before the other people he was sharing a cottage with, and the train arrived a long distance away from the place he was statying (at the wedding venue). Flickums - generous spirit that she is - volunteered to pick him up. I went along, largely because I had nothing better to do. The evil satnav got us to the station okay, and back to Ilfracombe, but decided that narrow country roads were still fun, and that the absolute best route to the venue was up a public footpath!

Decided that Google might have a better idea here, so reverse, went back to a main road and found the place along actual roads... And a long windy farm lane; but at least that was essentially the driveway. But we delivered Liam to the destination, said hello to several other wedding guests, and we were pelased to find Liam didn't need to wait for the person who'd booked the room and could get first dibs on room. This was a family owned farm/wedding venue/cottage so all handled pretty informally.

I helped with wedding prep by carrying cakes. Flickums wandered into the wrong cottage and tuirned around immediately. We were directed to "The Thtched Inn" for food where I had steamed mussels and was given a bucket with a cute lobster on it for handling shells.  Flickums was delighted by the lobster bucket. I was rather pleased with the cider, cream and garlic sauce they were cooked in! Liam treeated us because he was exceedingly grateful for the lift! I always think a good deed is its own reward but if a reward comes with it I'm not going to say no.

West Trek 3: The Search for - actually there wasn't much searching... Star Trek titles aren't really working here.

Alec and Fleur are a lovely couple! I don't know them that well, but Flick is friendly.

The ceremony was at a nice little venue by the promenade. Really nice. And a rainbow came out to celebrate! The weather wasn't perfect but it's October! The rain did decided to disappear in time for some photos.

Went to venue. Had cider. Had food! Listened to speeches. We found out what sort of a man Alec is!  There was face painting!  There was a photo booth! There was pressed apple juice from a local farm. We were seated near the photograpther and she was lovely! We also had an Auntie Fox, a Mr Fox, a Pete and Katiebug on our table!

Face painter painted a pumpkin on Flickums and made me look like a kitty cat!

We had a pub quiz. We won! It helped that the first round was a movie question, and Flick knows movie stuff!

It was fun. I ate too much food. I already had trouble squeezing into my trousers.

Flickums drive home and managed to avoid running anyone over despite the best efforts of the people of Ilfracombe!

West Trek 4: The Voyage Home

Couldn't park at the hotel the previous night, but streeet parking around the corner was free until 10am. That gave us plenty of time for breakfast (the hotel had a very nice breakfast selection - freshly cooked). We packed, picked up a Katiebug and this time we actually found the railway.

It's a really cute little narrow railway. A very short run unfortunately, because unlike most preserrved railways, there was no remaining track, so they had to bebuild from the start. The man in the gift shop had the sort of magnificent beard that you often see on railway people. I imagine he was also fond of either real ale, or - more likely in this part of the country - real cider.

We went on a train ride that terminated at nowhere in particular before turning back.

And finally headed home. A long ride but fortunately very little traffic.

Final day in LA. flickums  wanted to go to the Forest Lawn cemetery. There are many famous people buried there.

We arrived. Found the mausoleom - not too hard since it was massive. But the door was locked. So was the other door, but there ws a sign saying visitors need to be able to say who they want to visit. Apparently the staff aren't allowed to say where people are buried either. They're not really about tourists.

So we abandoned that, and came back. We did have time to do another luckykaa thing. The Angel Flight railway. A funicular that goes from the street to nowhere in particular. But it's always fun to ride a funicular.

After that we had a lot mopre time to kill than expected. Loitered in the hotel a little. Took a lot of photos. The lobby was used as the ballroom. the gallery was used as the main entrance. The elevators were used as-is. I think a lot of the corridors were on the floors that we couldn't access. I feel I should have posed with my Slimer keyring but I forgot I had it.

We had a lot of time so decided to take the LAX Flyer to the airport. It's only a couple of stops on the metro to Union station and a lot cheaper than an Uber.

So that was it for the holiday. Minor annoyance that they didn't realise we had an upgrade. Decided to splash out for lounge access again. Flew home. Travel to Euston station was frustrating with many delays on the Elizabeth line, Paddington being confusing, and no escalator at Euston Square.

Still, we got home. Had tea. Watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Slept like the dead!