The British Museum

On Tuesday morning Cat and I went for breakfast to a restaurant called Vinoteca near her office, which is in the excellent up and coming area at Granary Square that I visited yesterday. Vinoteca is in St Pancras Square and it was great having breakfast looking out at all the people walking past and at Jacques Rival's giant birdcage installation in Battle Bridge Place. The bars are wide enough for people to walk in and in the centre of it is a swing! Needless to say we had a quick swing there after breakfast which was great fun! Then it was time to say goodbye to Cat as she headed in to work. It really has been grand seeing her.
My next destination was the British Museum, where I was meeting Jennifer. I asked to meet her there because it's handy for St Pancras Station (only half an hour's walk) and also I have never been there before and I fancied having a look round. We met at the front gates and had a lovely time wandering around the exhibits and chatting. Of course we had coffee and cake in the 3rd floor café which had an elegant and relaxed atmosphere. I would love to return there and delve deeper into the exhibits so I bought a guide book for future reference. But on Tuesday I was more interested in chatting with Jennifer and it was a beautiful setting as we strolled round cracking jokes about Grecian urns.
Then we headed to St Pancras Station where Jennifer treated me to a delicious lunch in the little Fortnum and Mason's shop there, which has a café in it. It was quite quiet which was great; I think that a lot of people in the bustling station outside don't realise that the café is there. Coincidentally (since I saw it last Saturday), music from La Traviata was playing in the background.
After we said our farewells, I took the train (and shuttle bus) back to Luton Airport in plenty of time for my 6 p.m. flight to Edinburgh. I was home by about quarter past eight where I found James and Alasdair wholesomely watching a Ray Mears television programme about American Pioneers.