I was watching an episode of QI on YouTube the other day and one of the Victorian curiosities they were asking questions about (a merman skeleton) had been loaned to them by the Horniman Museum. I'd never heard of this place, but a discussion ensued between the QI competitors, with all of them saying how they'd been to this museum and how nice it was. So I decided I should check it out next time I was in London.
It's a bit out of the way, and being south of the river it's not on the underground network. Instead, we walked from Greenwich to New Cross Gate station and took the London overground Windrush line to Forest Hill. The museum itself is free, as are the lovely gardens. It houses a large selection of curios from all over the world that Horniman collected.
There's also an aquarium and a butterfly house and there was a special exhibition of robots made in the shape of animals, called "robot zoo", but these have an entrance fee, so we didn't do them.
It's Becky's last day in Greenwich (she's heading for Heathrow tomorrow), so after returning from the Horniman we went for a nice lunch at a restaurant we'd spotted near the Cutty Sark. The wait staff didn't speak great English and after ordering "taramasalata as an appetizer ", what we got was taramasalata and an appletizer!
After lunch we went back to the Maritime Museum again and went around the 1st floor. We hadn't managed to see that floor before the museum closed for the day on our previous visit.
Then it was off to our favourite ice cream shop again which was all we wanted for dinner after such a large lunch. Today I had caramel popcorn and black vanilla flavours.
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