It’s raining today – the first really rainy day of our trip. We don’t let that stop us and head into the city centre again anyway. After all, why did we bring rain jackets? Passing the Back to the Future Musical Theatre and Trafalgar Square, we reach our favourite hidden parking spot south of Leicester Square and are lucky: one free parking space is waiting for us.

We start in the Lego Store, where many beautiful new sets are on display. I really like the Animal Crossing sets, the new small Formula 1 racing cars less so. And there are some interesting new BrickHeadz. But in the end I don’t buy anything.

From here, we make our way to the French-Asian bakery Arôme. Gabi really wants to try their honey butter toast and it’s really good; crispy and slightly sticky. The rest of their baked goods looks really great too.

Then we visit Forbidden Planet. We are delighted that some Wallace & Gromit items are now also on offer. In addition to the Funko Pop! figures, the range now also includes plush Pokemons and a whole wall of anime fan merchandise that we have no idea which TV series or video game it belongs to. I don’t buy anything here either.

In the Covent Garden area, we pop into the Tintin shop and marvel at all the wonderful figures and model cars to match the comics. Professor Calculus’ shark submarine with Tintin and Snowy on board is a particular feast for the eyes. I would love to take it with me straight away. But with the purchase price of £1,500, I don’t. Gabi is more successful: she buys beautiful bee earrings in the shop next door, which we were actually heading for.

Gabi has a great idea for lunch: in the Seven Dials Market, a former banana warehouse, many small food stalls around the central eating area offer their delicacies. I get a pulled pork sandwich and sweet potatoes, which we share. For dessert, it has to be a wheelcake, of course, with a kind of warm vanilla and chocolate pudding inside.

A quick trip to an Asian shop and then we’re done: that’s all the shops we wanted to visit in the city centre. So we decide to drive to The Toy Project in an outlying neighbourhood in North London. I had bought the Lego plates in their small branch in Selfridges yesterday, and maybe they have more here. But it turns out that these really were the showpieces. There are few interesting Lego sets here – along with lots of other toys – but they’re either too old (1975 and 1976) or too new (2000s and younger) for my 1980s Lego world.

At least we really enjoyed the drive here, as it took us through our former neighbourhood in Bloomsbury. Despite the satnav’s complaints, we drove straight ahead once instead of turning left to pass our former home in Hunter Street.

On the way back to the hotel, we make a stopover in Canary Wharf. Gabi wants to visit another Asian shop here. She knows exactly what she wants. And so we leave the shop ten minutes later with a full shopping bag. LucY has had just enough time to charge up at the Supercharger in the car park.

For dinner, I pick up a delicious selection from Wahaca: loaded nachos, two different types of tacos, cauliflower bites and taquitos – what a fantastic Mexican feast!

P.S. I also didn’t buy a hat like the one Indiana Jones wears today. All the Fedoras for the films came from London’s House of Swayne, whose branch in Burlington Arcade had already closed yesterday when we passed it on our way to Fortnum & Mason. Gabi has since checked the website and seen that a hat costs £790. That’s far too expensive for me.