London: Roald Dahl Museum, 221b Baker Street, and the Lego Store, Day 46 — Post dictated by Alexander Dupuy

A Day in the life of Alexander Dupuy — Woke up, fell outta bed, dragged a comb across my head (go to minute 2.19).

We left Notting Hill and got the 9:57 train from Marylebone to Great Missenden to visit the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. We walked down the high street and when we got there, we scanned the tickets.

When we go to the first room, called Boy Gallery, it talked about what was in the book Boy, based on Roald Dahl’s childhood. His family is from Norway but moved to England when he was young. He went to boarding school when he was about 9 years old and he was treated badly there. He said he was paddled by the school headmaster. He also wrote about a candy shop in his town and there was a mean, old lady there. One day he found a rat, and decided to put the rat in a candy jar to scare the old lady. She put her hand in the jar and found the rat but it was dead (maybe it ate too much candy!)

The next room was called Solo Gallery. It was about Dahl’s time in the Air Force. He served in the AF during World War II and crashed his plane in Libya after running out of fuel. There is a quote on the back of the book that says, “A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones.”

We took the train from Great Missenden back to London and walked to see the home of Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street.

After Sherlock Holmes, we went to see the Lego Store in Leicester Square, the biggest lego store in the world. There were lots of large lego replicas of British landmarks and characters.