This morning was taken up, as Sunday morning usually is, by breakfast and a run to the supermarket.

Later, when we were stirred by pangs of hunger, we thought about going out.

We took a bus to Finsbury Square and tried out the branch of Haz, the Turkish restaurant, there. Above is a panorama of the restaurant taken by Tigger though, because it is squeezed into a relatively small space you probably can’t make out much detail.

As usual, Tigger chose ayran to drink and I chose Turkish tea. They serve their tea in small tulip glasses here. This is traditional but when I can I persuade the restaurant to serve me a large cup! (Photo by Tigger.)

They serve meze here and we chose several vegetarian items, starting with lentil soup. (Photo by Tigger.)

Here we are looking along City Road and the sky shows that the weather is far from promising. It rained this morning but the rain is holding off for now.

We walked down City Road to London Wall where Tigger took this photo. We had come here to catch the 100 bus to our next destination, a participant in the Open House Weekend.

When I was young, I had an ambition to join the Thames Police. The idea of fighting crime by sailing up and down the Thames in a police launch appealed to me. I was therefore very interested to visit the Thames Police HQ in Wapping. When we arrived, however, it turned out that only the museum was available to visitors.(Above is one of the exhibits.)

The museum was quite crowded with visitors and it was hard to move about and view the exhibits.

According to the label, this equipment belongs to the Under Water and Confined Space Search Team. Their work includes the recovery of bodies and “Protester Removal”. Do they have many underwater protesters, I wonder, or protesters in confined spaces? Anything is possible, I suppose.

If I had hoped for a ride in a launch or even to see one close up, I was disappointed. This was as close as we were able to go. Tigger took this photo from the museum window.

If you look closely and perhaps use a magnifying glass), you can perhaps make out a cormorant perched on the pole just to the left of the blue boathouse.

Finally, this photo by Tigger might amuse you. She took it in Jusaka where we stopped for a final coffee before returning home. While Tigger was going on on with her crochet work, I was catching up with the blog, using the Bluetooth keyboard that I mentioned in an earlier post.