Day 60 I reached bus route No 100 and took Debbie and Charmaine with me to mark the milestone on John's anniversary

To mark the occasion of John's anniversary and my first anniversary of doing the quest I arranged to do bus No 100 with Debbie. To make life easier and to ensure Deb made it safely this time across the pavement to Grove Park station we drove to her house and walked with her to the station. We caught the 1153 towards Cannon Street and alighted at New Cross and almost immediately jumped on the London Overground 1212 to Dalston Junction leaving at 1230 at Shadwell.

Debbie and Charmaine after arrival at Shadwell

The starting point of the No 100 in the distance

Unlike most underground stations there wasn't a map showing which buses stopped where, just a map showing the bus stops and so it required a little perambulation to find that the No 100 actually started from outside the Town hall.

Town hall Cable Street

Charmaine and Debbie about to board SE225

We waited until 1247 and then the bus, London General SE225 set off initially east but soon turned south to Tobacco Dock and it then followed south towards the river and traversed Wapping passing by the River Boat police station and various wharves.

One of a number of wharves that have been 'gentrified' Pierhead Wharf.

At one point (1302) the bus came across two vans parked illegally on the left hand side of the road and two motorbikes parked legally on the right hand side. For a while he just sat blaring his horn in the hope someone might come and do something. Nobody did so after 3 minutes he very gingerly and very expertly squeezed past the obstructions. This generated spontaneous cheers and applause from Debbie; admittedly someone not known from being quiet and unobtrusive.

Squeezing past the vans to the left

The closeness of the motorbikes on the right

In many parts of this road the roads traversed were cobbled

On Vaughan Way we crossed what had been a dock
water system at some point but was now a water feature

From Wapping the bus headed to the Commercial Road where we turned left to Tower Hill and then at this junction went under the tracks leading into Fenchurch Street station to then go up Mansell Street to Aldgate.





The bus subsequently headed to Moorgate and finally terminated on London Wall outside the Museum of London at 1323. My 2016 map had the bus heading towards Blackfriars Bridge and ending at Elephant and Castle but apparently this does not happen any more.

Masonry along London Wall

Museum of London viewed from London Wall

Disembarkation after one of the shortest
 trips I have done: only 36 minutes.

Last Thursday we all should have seen, "Everyone is talking about Jamie" and we then headed to the Southbank to go to the Hayward Gallery to see a presentation about drag queens. We had a late lunch here and then walked over the river to catch a train from Charing Cross. No dice though, signal failure meant all trains were cancelled. No matter I said, 'let's get a No 176 to Elephant and Castle and from there get a train to Bellingham.' This worked quite well; the bus soon arrived at 1518 and by 1540 we were at Elephant and Castle station. Five minutes later the 1545 to Sevenoaks arrived and this reached Bellingham at 1612. Then we walked down to the main road to catch a No 136 to Grove Park station. This was actually quite a wait as the bus didn't arrive until 1630 and so it was 1649 before we were walking to Debbie's house to have a cup of tea and a biscuit.