We didn’t hear from the tyre garage yesterday, but the Tesla app shows that the tyre pressure is okay again, so the new tyre must have arrived and been fitted. Great! So I return the rental car at 8 am with a good feeling. And I’m very glad that Caroline picks me up and drives me back to the hotel. The walk would have taken two hours. No, otherwise I would have just taken a taxi of course. Enterprise advertises its pick-up service, but there is no return service (or at least they don’t guarantee one).

When I arrive at KwikFit at half past eight, the employee is just driving LucY out of the garage, where it had a safe place to spend the night. The tyre has indeed been changed and the car is ready for our further travel plans. The only thing left to do is pay. Ouch. In any case, we are very pleased with the two companies and their friendly staff, who went out of their way to help us in our time of need. Thank you very much!

We are over the moon to be travelling with LucY again. And are heading to London today. We visit the Tim Burton exhibition at the Design Museum. I know his work mainly from Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, two Batman films (with my favourite Batmobile) and of course Nightmare before Christmas. Of course, he did a lot more! In the exhibition, we admire many of his drawings, sketches, paintings and sculptures, starting in his childhood, his first successes as a teenager and his career at Disney. The whole thing is accompanied by original costumes – from Mars Attacks (that’s right, also one of his films), Wednesday (he directed the first four episodes) and many more. The exhibition is really beautifully done and we like it VERY much. If you want to see it too, you need to hurry: It only runs until 26 May 2025.

We take a quick look at the police and ambulance open day in the park next to the hotel. I even get to switch on the flashing blue lights and siren!

Then we walk to the large Whole Foods a few blocks down. We’ve been in this area several times before, especially of course for the London Film and Comic Con in the nearby Olympia Hall. Their food offer is just great. I scoop myself a bowl full, while Gabi prefers to buy a spicy tuna sandwich and a fruit juice from Joe and the Juice. We eat it all in the park – a little further away from the police siren.

Then we take a tour of the rest of the Design Museum. Particularly impressive is the wall with the evolution of devices – radios, record players, typewriters, telephones, calculators, laptops, storage media – which all come together in the centre of the wall in the iPhone and iPad. And we admire the lovely light blue car in front of the Design Museum, which matches the colour of the ice cream stand so perfectly.

We drive back from our VIP car park directly in front of the Design Museum. Not yet to the hotel, but to a large Marks & Spencer supermarket in Guildford. We want to stock up for tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest. The ‘Green Goddess’ dip scores twelve points from us while the show from Basel is playing on the iPad. We tried to get tickets, but unfortunately didn’t. So we booked a few extra days in England – and are enjoying them all the more.