We’ve been counting down since the proposal, but today is the first main event that marks the run in – stag do with the Cornish group. It’s been decided after numerous conversations that Brussels will be the stopping point.
I started off from Winchester, while the others left Cornwall at a far less sociable time, yet I still arrived first and headed towards a museum with an old operating theater and displays about medicine from days gone by – OUCH!
Bermondsey, by the Shard is home to The Old Operating Theatre, which is a fascinating museum, quoting from their website:
Housed in the attic of the early eighteenth-century church of the Old St Thomas’ Hospital, this atmospheric museum offers a unique insight into the history of medicine and surgery. The original timber-framed Herb Garret was once used to dry and store herbs for patients’ medicines, and in 1822, an operating theatre was installed. Once used for operations that predated anaesthetics and antiseptics, it is the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe for female patients.
This might not have been the most natural thing to visit on the morning of a stag do, but if filled the time and was well worth an hours wonder.
From the theatre, I wondered to The Leadenhall Building to wait for everyone else, right in the heart of the city of London. A beautiful building it was the ideal location to wait and enjoy the atmosphere of the business city.
With everyone else arriving we consumed a few more beers, before enjoying the gardens on the Walkie Talkie building. This led to a dash for the Eurostar train, via a pizza, (feeling a little worse already) and a journey to Brussels. Can’t complain about Eurostar, an easy way to travel to northern Europe.
A quite evening after a wonder through the city to find the hotel, and a relatively early night.
