Today, we’re visiting the Museum of London with a temporary exhibition about Sherlock Holmes. It presents the London the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived in with many paintings from that time, there are lots of videoclips of the several Holmes that have been on screen since, and a huge display with items such as magnifying glass, pipe, hat and coat that became the consulting detective’s well-known symbols. Photography is sadly not permitted.

The museum’s shop is well-stocked. Gabi buys a Sherlock Holmes rubberducky for our bathroom. 😉

Here, you may find another Paddington bear, this one designed by the current Sherlock Holmes actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

We continue to the city centre and drive by our old neighborhood: This beautiful building in Hunter Street was our home almost eleven years ago.

The Brunswick Centre close-by gained a lot over the years. A lot of the stores were boarded-up back then, there was a supermarket and some cheap liquor stores. Today, it’s a popular place with nice little stores, restaurants and a better supermarket.

We park near Oxford Circus and visit the great department store Liberty (which is currently shown on TV again). They have the most beautiful items on offer and we love discovering new things each time we’re here. This time, we’re excited about a new addition to the store: in a bridge to the next building (photo: on the right, half of it cut off) that was used as storage until recently, they now sell indigenous South American vases and idols (upper floor) as well as home decoration (lower floor).

The Christmas decoration on offer is brilliant as always. 🙂

After Liberty, we walk down Regent Street and back through Shaftesbury Avenue, buying some sushi to eat in the hotel. Enjoy!