United managed to get me there 3 hours late, so I was late for my private appointement and tour of Mclaren Technology Centre in Woking, but thankfully they were half shutdown (August holidays), so while I had a slightly more limited tour (factory floor was closed), my host Jeff nicely waited for me and gave me a nice private tour (read more about it here:

After a way overpriced cab to Woking so that I wouldn't be more late than necessary, I took a train to London:

After checking in my hotel, I went to meet my schoolmate Jerome Abela for a nice dinner at Orrery. Yummy french food with seared foie gras :)

For day #2, my plan was to go to London's RAF Museum, which is somewhat outside of London:

On my way back, I had enough time to go see a few others museums. I started with the British Libary which had its room of treasures closed last time I went:

Next, I went to the London Transport Museum which was actually a good visit outside of them having limitations on number of people who can visit:

I then had enough time for a couple of nice crepes (my first meal of the day), before going to see a musical (back to the future) after walking around a bit to burn time until the show:

the show was pretty good, I enjoyed it

Day #3, I had to take my post arrival covid test, which seemed very pointless as it took 7 days from arrival to get the results, but it was required for my trip to the UK:

I then took a train to [Betchley park and the National Museum of Computing, which took the entire day, they were fantastic (click me)|perso/sciencemuseums/post_2021-08-25_Bletchley-Park-_-National-Museum-of-Computing.html]

By the time I was done (full day), got a train back to London to spend the rest of the evening:

One cool thing about public transport in London is that you can now just tap your android phone and get in and out without a ticket.

I went to se Mary Poppins that night. The not so great thing was that on one was wearing a mask. Unsurprisingly London got a lot more covid after that:

Harry Potter wasn't ready yet

it was a pretty good show

anyone who knows above and beyond acoustic, knows why I took this picture :)

Day #4, I had some time in the morning to go see Mme Tussauds (much better than I expected) before taking a train to Warrington where I was going for Creamfields.

All in all, it was not an in depth visit of London, but it wasn't meant to be either. Very happy that I got to see the RAF Museum, the British Library, and Betchley Park. Those alone were worth the trip, glad I got to see them.