{"id":8146,"date":"2026-01-06T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:18:07","slug":"back-from-the-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8146","title":{"rendered":"Back From The Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title sounds like I have just been outside for an illicit cigarette! Of course I refer to our trip to London<\/strong>. We had a super time and it culminated in a lovely anniversary meal in a French Restaurant last night. We had travelled across the City to the Excel Centre<\/strong> in Docklands<\/strong> to see an immersive Pompeii<\/strong> <\/span>exhibition – it was brilliant! We then went across the dock on a wonderful high footbridge near to the Thames Barrier.<\/strong> Clare<\/strong> and I then fully utilised our bus passes back across the city (three different buses) which was great fun.<\/p>\n

So we enjoyed our three different visits over the three days all very different but each was excellent. A couple of pictures below (I didn’t risk putting the one of Clare<\/strong> as an AI generated Roman Lady in Pompeii<\/strong><\/span> in this public blog!). One is the whales from the Attenborough’s<\/strong> “Our Story”<\/strong><\/em>– the other is of the London City Airport<\/strong> from the bridge- you might be able to see a plane landing!<\/p>\n

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