The British Museum

Okay, okay. We do want to get to know London properly, i.e. see all the lovely little hideaway places, and not just live on the beaten track. However, we haven't done many touristy things in London before so we want to make sure that we get the best of both worlds. And today was most definitely a touristy day.

Does the British Museum need an introduction? Probably not, but just in case — it's considered to be one of the world's greatest museums for history and culture. It has about eight million things in its permanent collection and is generally a bit fantastic.

I don't need to say much more about it, so here's a selection of the photos we took today.

World's oldest recorded porn

Such a beautiful room

No idea what this is, but I like it

The ceiling is amazing

Garry

Discobolus

Me

Statue on the stairs

Model of Olympia

The place was so big we couldn't see everything — definitely worth a few trips.

East-Street Restaurant

We hadn't been in London more than an hour before a text from Ashley popped up on my phone, asking if I'd like to go for pad Thai with her and her boyfriend that night. Ashley is one of my favourite people in the whole entire world, so I wasn't exactly going to say no...

That's how we found ourselves at East-Street, which is a three minutes walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station. It was absolutely tiddling down with rain, as this cheery photo of Garry will attest to.

But once inside it was warm, cosy, and smelt amazing. On their website they say that their "menu is composed from the best street food and signature dishes from across East Asia" and above each item on their menu it tells you whether the dish is from Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam or Korea.

Ashley and Jack both had Pad Thai — the little bit I tasted was gorgeous. Garry had a chicken Khao Pad, which is wok-fried rice with mushroom, beans, pineapple, basil and peanuts and looked like this:

But mine was my favourite. Chicken Abodo — Chicken breast in a peppercorns, garlic and bay leaf sauce with fried sweet potato. Yum.

As first nights go, this one was pretty wonderful. Thanks to Ashley for suggesting it x