Looking back to Leicester Square

Sunday 27^th May 2012

The fantastic weather just keeps rolling on. Woke this morning to a clear blue cloudless sky with the temperature predicted to be in the high 20’s.

Checked out of the University Arms Hotel in Cambridge about 9:00am and caught a Taxi to Cambridge station. Purchased tickets for the fast train to London which arrived at Kings Cross station about 10:30am. Another taxi ride saw us checking into the Hotel Russell in Russell Square that will be our base in London for the next 3 nights. We have stayed here before and it is a lovely old hotel built in 1896 with a   grand central staircase, marble columns and very high ceilings.

As our room was not going to be ready until 2:00pm we left our luggage with the Concierge and caught the tube to Leicester Square to purchase theatre tickets for tomorrow night to see Mousetrap. Mousetrap is a play written by Agatha Christie and is the longest running live theatre production in London.

Lynne in the M&M shop

After buying the tickets Lynne discovered that we were almost right outside M & M World so she had to go in. An hour and a half later we left the shop with a bag full of M & M merchandise – Lynne thought it was fantastic!!!  Everything is based on M & M’s, and you can buy M & M’s in 22 different colours. 

A personal Air Raid Shelter

After a light late lunch back at the Hotel we again caught the tube and headed for Covent Garden where we walked round the Covent Garden Markets and also went into the London Transport Museum. It portrays the story of travel in and around London over the last 200 years, and has some original trains, tube carriages, buses and taxis. It was very interesting, especially the history of the London Underground.

After a great day in what seems like our second home we headed back to the Hotel for dinner.