Visited 15th April 2012.
As we had stayed overnight at our friends house we were still in London. Hmm, what to do today? Our friend was working and had left for work very early, in fact we were still asleep when he left so after letting his dogs out, and back in we left and headed to the nearest tube station where we found we had another two tickets that wouldn't work the barriers. We had a bit less of a plan today so we thought we would keep it simple and find somewhere to go that didn't involve to much mucking about on the trains. We ended up detraining at Stepney Green, just a short walk away from the 'The Half Moon'. When we first entered we thought we were the only people in there as there was no one about that we could see and the bar appeared to be closed. But then, why would the doors be open? We went further in and as we rounded a corner the pub seemed to suddenly open out. Quite unusual but at least we had found some people and another bar. It was quiet and Mrs S. had no problem finding a table while I went and ordered a large breakfast for me, a breakfast wrap for Mrs S. and two large lattes for the both of us. We sat and ate while watching the place start to fill up with a lot more people ordering breakfasts. The staff were friendly and very efficient and I quite liked the interesting interior design. We didn't want to be late getting home today so we decided to visit just one more pub and then head back. So we wanted a pub somewhere between Stepney Green and Paddington, fortunately I had already thought about this and we didn't have to use Mrs S.'s 'pin in the map' method of navigaton (also how she chooses her horses). With this in mind we headed back to Stepney Green tube station in search of a member of staff to allow us passage through the barriers...
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