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Wednesday 20th August 2025

As the bank holiday approached, we were getting ready for our latest holiday. We last went away (to London again) in March (the delayed trip due to my broken arm). This time we planned to be in London at the bank holiday, which we felt worked really well after visiting last year for Simon & Steph’s wedding.

Today we set off on our holiday for 2025, this time we chose to have an extended trip to London, which we’ve not done in a while. Recently we have just stayed for 1 night.

We got a later train, so we got up pretty reasonable time around 7-ish and left at 8:30 to get the train to Leeds. We had about an hour to wait for our train to London, so we sat in Pret and had a coffee. I popped to Laynes to get some buns for the journey to London (and more coffee!).

The journey was pretty uneventful. The train was pretty much fully booked, quite a few families on their holidays too. We played the bird game on our new iPad and that seemed to make the time go pretty quickly. Once in London we quilky made our way to the hotel. We got there about 12, and only had a to wait a few minutes for our room to be ready (check-in is usually 2pm).


We quickly unpacked and settled into the room before heading out to do some shopping.



Kathryn wanted some new shoes, so we made our way over to Mayfair and went to the shop so she could try on a few pairs. We were pretty decisive and she got the shoes she wanted.


 We came back to the hotel via a stop at Ottolenghi and had a quick coffee/tea and cookie before making our way back to the hotel.





We had a quick rest before heading out to the Mexican place for dinner. It was pretty quiet and there was on 1-2 other people. The waiter was really nice and the food was a good as always.



We came back via a little Waitrose to get some supplies for the room.


Once back we played the bird game some more and watched some crappy television.

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