Z is mildly miffed, but only because TFL needs to get its act together

 I'm on my way home from That London.  Every time I go, it reinforces my absolute knowledge that I couldn't bear to live further away than would make a day trip feasible.  Today, we were visiting the London Museum at Docklands.  The old London Museum was at London Wall and so very convenient for Liverpool Street Station (the one I use) but it was never very well publicised so, by the time I finally went there, it was already marked for closure.  The new main museum will be at the old Smithfield Market site and is due to open this year, but this smaller one (mostly the history of London as a trading port) had an exhibition of what had been retrieved from the shores of the river by mudlarkers.  People have mudlarked for centuries, but for most of that time it was for scavenging anything that could be used or sold and now it's for interesting and sometimes very old artefacts.

Since the opening of the wonderful Elizabeth Line (London's most recent Tube line), which seems to go everywhere, easily, our horizons have been broadened in terms of ease in getting places.  What isn't so good is actually tracking down directions.  That is, we hopped on the train and reached Canary Wharf in minutes, but finding which exit to take wasn't so easy, nor was finding out how to cross the dock.  I asked a chap at a fast food place in the end.  Then, my phone app took me to the staff entrance of the museum,  when it would have been quicker and easier to direct us to the main way in.  Had there been a signpost anywhere, we'd not have needed directions.

After that, I looked up the Transport For London (tfl) app to find how to get to Tate Modern.  It blithely told me a tube and two buses, so I looked on the tfl website.  That just had the tube and one bus.  I checked Apple Maps and I could take the Dockland Light Railway to Bank and then walk.  It was quite a long walk, but far more straightforward.   

Anyway, we had a good look at the Picasso exhibition and then decided to walk back, rather than half a mile in the wrong direction and then a bus.  The good thing about anywhere in the City is that it's no more than a mile anywhere - it's even called the Square Mile.  So all is well, except that the tfl app, that used to be excellent, is now so obsessed with giving you cycling directions that it is absolutely dreadful for anything else.  When I get home, I'm going to give it another damning review.

The weather has been wonderful.  Sunny and springlike all day.  Now 4.45pm and it's still sunny.