Spectres and Super Sleuths

Woke late  and headed out to do a walk - Tim our host has designed an hour walk that wanders the Lambeth and Waterloo area to give you a bit of an idea of the neighbourhood. Along with historical points as well as shopping tips and cafes, restaurants and pubs.

Just down the road was the MI6 secret service headquarters, the Bedlam (insane) asylum, War Museum, Tibetan Peace Garden and William Bligh's house.

Charlie Chaplin s pub, the Lincoln Tower and the London Necropolis. Lower Marsh is 300metres away and has some great cafes, restaurants, food market stalls, retro stores and organic shops. A graffiti area set up by Banksy and all in all a great little neighbourhood.

Waterloo and The Cut are next in the other direction; again, shops, theatres, restaurants and cafes. Everything is within easy walking distance and our studio is fabulous.

After a quick lunch it's back on the walking trail - underground to Bond Street, the Handl Museum, Jimmy Hendrix lived next door for a time, the Elephant Man, the Profumo House, Arthur Conan Doyle's, alleyways, underpasses, and narrow cobbled lanes twisting and turning through the back streets, amazing history and trivia. A brilliant cheese shop La Fromagerie where we could have spent half the day and half the bank account. Parks, churches  and mausoleums, Marylebone Road, Baker Street and Sherlocks Museum and not far from the Beetles shop.