
Fortify yourself with a full English breakfast at your B&B hotel. Head for the High Street with a vague intention of visiting a museum. Wander around pretending to look at old buildings.
Find your first “hotel” and have a little nap over hot chocolate and sponge cake.

Pull yourself together, consult Google maps on how to get to the museum. Get side-tracked again despite Google’s exemplary instructions.
Sink into the couch in the cafe V&A Museum because it’s now definitely time for another caffeine hit.
Watch the dreadful video of Exeter College dance students dancing around the museum in dim light for no apparent reason.
Continue watching. It’s a great excuse to relax for a little longer before you haul yourself up from the (low) sofa and head for the ground floor exhibits.
Ignore the milling kids on summer holidays and the stuffy smell, while you do your best to read the information boards in small type under low lighting.

Admit that your dodgy knees and poor attention span make heading to the art displays on the first floor feel like an herculean task.

Check your watch to confirm that it’s a perfectly respectable time to be going to a pub, particularly as the pub is of historical interest.
Read the history plaque outside the pub, admire the cosy low-ceilinged bar then head to the scruffy beer garden out the back for fresh air and a drink.
After a couple hours, suitably refreshed, find a Tesco for some provisions for dinner so that you don’t have to go out again.
Make your way straight home to your B&B along the road where there’s an inviting pub that reminds you your need a pitstop for the toilet rather urgently.

And from the the photo on the wall you can tell that it’s right royal place to have a wee (tipple).


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