Leake Street Tunnel

Duncan was staying at our place for the night, so Tom took a half day and we met up for a drink at The Tankard.

Tom pointed out the old site of the London Necropolis railway station as we made our way towards Waterloo.

We then wandered through Leake Street Tunnel so that we could check out the graffiti.

It was so colourful and there was so much to look at. I was tempted to try making some for myself.

This David Bowie Lego art was my favourite.

There were some street artists painting in the tunnel while we were there and a photoshoot taking place at the other end.

We then caught the Waterloo & City line, which I hadn't realised was only two stops, Waterloo and Bank.

I also managed to press a Mind The Gap penny in a tacky souvernir shop.

Determined to be as productive as possible with Tom's half day we went on a flying museum crawl, starting at the Bank Of England Museum.

We each attempted to lift the bar of gold.

Our second stop was the City of London Police Museum.

The museum was free and small but filled with lots of interesting things.

They had a couple of the Suffragette homemade bombs.

This coat stand was making fun of the Metropolitan Police who have a shorter height requirement to the City Police.

I loved this wall of homemade weapons including knuckle dusters, table legs and a rock in a sock.

The highlight of the museum was getting to try on the different type so police hats and helmets.

Our next stop was the Museum Of London to see the fatberg.

When we'd heard they had a piece of the fatberg at the museum, we had imagined a huge thing taking up most of the room but it was only a few inches wide.

We had a quick skim around the rest of the museum, rushing through the early years to the Victorian era and 1950's when the good stuff happened.

They had "the real" Bill & Ben, the Flower Pot Men, who are even scarier in real life.

We were excited to get to see the Olympic Cauldron up close. They only had a small part of it but it was massive.

We got a little lost in the Barbican afterwards as we made our way to the Shoreditch Grind for a cocktail.

I sipped on a Clover Club while we decided what to do next.

We then headed to the Strongroom for their weekly pub quiz.

Being a music bar, we though the quiz would be music themed, but it turned out to be all fashion questions so I ended up helping out more than usual.

Luckily it was burger night, so we got cheap veggie burgers and drinks with the quiz.

We ended the night at Flat Iron with a round of Old Fashioneds, which is quickly becoming my new favourite cocktail.