The tube strike has had no effect on the people around here, everything is just as packed as ever this week. We left the British Museum for today so we didn't need any transport - we walked up Shaftsbury and Fid remembered the Forbidden Planet store he clocked the afternoon we first arrived. This place is stocked up with every kind of trinket from every kind of cult sensation from the last 40 years. Figurines of every Doctor, a Walter White dressed for the cook, an Arya Stark in fight pose, Firefly figurines and every kind of fandom T-Shirt imaginable. We eventually extracted Fid from the Pokemon comics and continued to the Museum.

Our month of late nights mean we're adept to very late starts now, we're arriving at the Museum a bit after 12, it's just over 22c, we stop for a reinvigorating pint across the road before heading in. The Museum has been established longer than the city I live in. It's most prized possessions arrived before it became impolite to pilfer the world's treasures. I'd have no idea how to move some it it's most awe inspiring items today, let alone decades or centuries ago. The bust of Ramesses II weighs in at over 7 tons. It's impressive engineering to get it here, then to think about how this massive lump of rock was moved and sculpted 3300 years ago is just unfathomable.

We spent most of our time in the very ancient exhibits. Boo's fire and brimstone scripture instructor has played herself deftly into my hands. Her silly black and white explanation of man on earth means Boo has come away thinking there was nothing before Christ. Yet here we are surrounded by relics and people from further before Christ than we stand here after him. Happy confusion reigned before the seeds of doubt in her instruction flourished. Fid is right into Egypt at the moment, and this is a hell of a place to immerse yourself in it. They have an excellent display of the evolution of the mummification process from crude wooden forms to the lavish stonework.

Mum has a family history factsheet that traces the roots of our family name back to Marcus Aurelius, fact or fantasy the kids enjoyed the fantasy that they were related "ohh yeah look at his nose". As we entered the Greek area Boo clocked the Cyprus sign and told us this is Evie's history! We weren't allowed to leave until we'd thoroughly taken everything in. Further on we returned to the larger Egyptian relics that bust of Ramesses II is impressive but nothing would keep Fid from the Rosetta stone. They've been studying it at school this term, so he shot a little video to show to them when he returns.

I remember an Anthony Bourdain episode with Fergus Henderson where they visit Borough Market, we made that our final stop of the day. Along the way we passed the Hop Exchange which just happens to be surrounded by awesome pubs and beer halls. I even tracked down Franziskaner for the first time since northern Italy, bliss. Gab took Fid for a haircut in the market while Boo and I walked around. I saw a truffle stand and tricked her into having a smell. The lady on the stand was in hysteric at her reaction, but composed herself enough to ask Boo to smell another one, she played up like this was much nicer, in fact it was 10x stronger - so was Boo's reaction :)

We strolled for an hour or so, black pudding scotch eggs, every kind of chacuterie and butcher. Even a guy with one of those whole cheese wheel melting rigs. The best bread we've seen since we left France and a guy who dedicated his whole stand to the largest range of beers I've ever seen. 

Creatures of habit we're back in Chinatown for dinner, the best dumplings so far aren't enough to overcome the sadness of this being our last night in London. We're leaving with a long list of things we didn't get to, an excitement about the next chapter in our adventure and a growing lump of remorse for having to leave London behind. We've had an exceptional time thanks mostly to the excitement and warmth of being a part of the Rob & Evie festival.