Virginia and I travelled to and from London by prebooked cab. This worked fairly well. The guy who took us down was 20 minutes early, not a problem. He insisted on dropping us before the Strand outside the Savoy Tap pub, and had us tell Panther Taxis to get the one who fetched us to collect us from there. The guy who collected us still did it from outside where we were staying so looking back this just added confusion and worry. A very friendly guy, not sure of his ethnicity, we had a tour of his East London homeland. I was also unsure of his driving where there didn’t always seem to be a hand on the wheel.

The Strand isn’t great for vehicles to stop in though it seemed coaches and taxis used the bus lane for that purpose on the North side. Our hotel Z Hotel was hidden down a missable alleyway. Friendly helpful staff who let us check in early, great location, miniscule rooms where the glass sided bathroom was most of the room. There was only one side to the bed which was a challenge.

We had lunch at a Macdonalds (didn’t realise one could order from downstairs and have the food brought there) then in the afternoon saw Back to the Future - The Musical at the Adelphi Theatre. A truly feel-good musical, some of the actors really looked and moved like their counterparts in the film, very effective light shows with the car (clever bit near the end), theatre strikingly adorned.

Frankie and Bennys were fully booked so we were happy to be fed at Zizzis nearby, I had another pepperoni pizza which I am addicted to. In the evening we saw Mischief Theatre’s The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre. This play sadly is on at our local Arts Theatre in Cambridge soon so we half wasted a trip! We thought initially the audience was very sparse but then coachloads of noisy schoolchildren arrived. Great added a certain flavour to proceedings. Very acrobatic comedy, seemingly life threatening at times. Clever pantomime satirical farce but not as brilliant as their Peter Pan Goes Wrong I felt.