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This morning, I stepped aboard my trusty companion — the Old Routemaster, Bus 168 via Waterloo — a true London veteran. Its red paint gleamed with pride, its seats murmured stories from decades of journeys, and the gentle sway as we pulled away felt like I was already moving through time.
From my perch on the top deck, the city opened like a theatre set: Waterloo Bridge with its sweep of silver water, the dome of St Paul’s peeking in the distance, the traffic keeping its perfectly imperfect London rhythm. The 168 seemed to know its route by heart, carrying me like an old friend towards Bloomsbury.
And there it was: the British Museum, stately and serene, as though it had been waiting just for me. Inside, history pressed close — the Rosetta Stone nodding knowingly, the mummies wrapped in quiet dignity, the Parthenon marbles glowing softly in their white light. It felt like holding a passport to every century at once.
By the time the Routemaster carried me home, my mind was heavy with centuries and my heart light with wonder. Some days in London, you don’t just travel through the city — you travel through time.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/
VISIT AMAZON to buy Beatrice and the London Bus books volume 1, Vol 2 – The Secrets of London
, Vol 3- The Conquest of London, the London Map Colouring book.
LONDON BUS RM 168 Via Waterloo, is an (Imaginary?), is the last Routemaster Bus left in London and in the World who is only friends with the brave and the Bold! He is a talking London Bus only special people con great imagination can see and hear talking. He is grumpy and always a bit feed up about something, mostly about all the complaints he need to hear all day long from the city’s secrets inhabitants: talking London buildings and tourist attractions who always seem to confide in him for the solution of their problems. He is very afraid of the Mayor of London who wants to get rid of him as he thinks is way too old, till one day he finds a way to survive the attempts of the Mayor to get rid of him and send him to the scrapheap. He becomes Beatrice’s trusted friend and together they embark on the most adventurous journey that has ever been written before about London! After all the already best ones that have been written by other authors, of course! The Author says! Something important! We forgot to mention that his home is the super Wonderful London Transport Museum in Covent Garden! There you can find the three volumes of Beatrice and the London Bus books! And don’t forget to visit the museum inside and ask them if they have seen RM 168 via Waterloo! They’ll probably say that they never heard of him but don’t worry, it is just because it is a secret that the LTM it’s his home! So they will pretend they never heard of him!
