It rains today. An ideal day for the museum. And that’s exactly what we intend to do. We visit the Victoria & Albert Museum with their large collection of old and new things and design objects from all over the world. For example a wooden back wall of a Selfridges lift, a designer lamp from Denmark or snapchat glasses for social media. And many artistically created antique snuff boxes.

It also has wallpaper and fabrics by William Morris, a designer, poet, writer and 19th century activist, that Gabi loves so much.

But actually we are here because of the special exhibition “Videogames”. In this exhibition we not only see extracts from various video games, but also get a look behind the scenes. How characters and storyboards are sketched and developed, for example, or how nowadays whole orchestras record the music. In addition, there are many simple little games to try out. For example, a kind of Tetris with food with the aim of neither eating too much nor too little calories. Or move a joystick wildly in all directions to control the colors in a light tube.

Then we make our way to the Ampersand Hotel. Gabi has reserved a table for a Science Afternoon Tea. I like the astronomy theme on the menus and plates. This is quite certainly the orbit of Halley’s comet (the larger orbit that goes over the edges of the menu), while I can’t assign the smaller comet orbit. Anyway, the Afternoon Tea (which we eat as supper at 6:30 pm) starts with some liquids to stir together as a liquid amuse-bouche. Then the etagere appears with the sweet and salty delicacies, which are also about astronomy and science. We especially like the chocolate mousse planet with a berry core and a ring of white chocolate, and the fossil box, where archaeologist foodies can search for dinosaur cookies with a brush in the chocolate crumbs.