Through the glass cases

So, today I took the longest bus ride in the world. I wanted to take a new bus route and was keen to find out how long it took to get to Clapham and what it looked like over that way. Not the best idea, not only was the bus ride about 2 hours but the bus driver decided to stop halfway through the route and made all the passengers get off. I, with everyone else, got off and had to wait for the next bus.

Now, by this time I also needed to go to the loo so every little minute of waiting around was making it worse. (Bonus though, the first bus's Oyster reader was broken so I didn't actually pay anything).

By the time the bus got to the destination, I really needed to go. I was meant to be going to the V&A but the Natural History Museum was closer, therefore their toilets were closer. So I went there first.

I also watched a tv programme last night on the Natural History Museum, so it was on the brain.

It is inside an amazing building, didn't get photo of outside, needed loo.

But lots of the inside and of the exhibits.

Sadly, T-Rex and the big mammals, blue whale etc were out of action. I would like to go back when the exhibits are open again.

Didn't understand what the Darwin centre was about down the end and didn't feel like finding out, maybe another time.

I really enjoyed the small animal areas and found where all the cats are hiding out in London... well, maybe not quite.

And then there was this...

Hmmmmmmm.

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) was amazing, I will have to go back and check out the galleries I didn't get to and possibly even pay to see the special exhibitions. I was, however,

extremely disappointed in the shop. All the affordable stuff was just crap. There wasn't even anything that interesting. For such a great design museum, very disappointing shop.

Again, there was a lot going on in the museum, which is great to see that things are going on and not static, but lots of things weren't there, like the wedding dresses in the fashion area, I think I saw one out of the four.

Great day out, even for the 2 hour bus ride, the rain and the missing exhibits. I would like to go with someone else so could discuss things - another adventure, another time.