I’d seen the V&A out of the corner of my eye on an earlier trip to London when we visited the Science Museum, but I didn’t pay close attention, and I’d no ideas what wonders were behind those walls. 

I heard a tour guide say that there are 8 miles of exhibition halls, and I don’t doubt it, as in the two hours I was there I barely made a dent in the collections. What I did manage to take in was the architecture, iron work, and theatre halls, a bit of the bookshop, and peering through corridors and things I didn’t have time to see in detail. I imagine you could take a week to tour the entire collection.