Friday, 29 November 2019
We woke up early enough to have breakfast at the hotel which was very good. We checked out, scraped ice off the window of the rental car, and headed to London to drop off the rental car and check into our AirBnB apartment that we will be staying in for the next week.
Wow...two awesome things to look forward to. First, dropping off the rental car will be a big relief. It marks the end of me driving on the other side of the road and it removes that little nag at the back of my head that we are responsible for a rental car. Second, we get to stay in one place (London) for the next 17 days. What a relief...that is after we drive though the traffic of London to return the rental car.
We left the hotel around 8:15 AM as planned and got stuck in London traffic as planned.
Wow...two awesome things to look forward to. First, dropping off the rental car will be a big relief. It marks the end of me driving on the other side of the road and it removes that little nag at the back of my head that we are responsible for a rental car. Second, we get to stay in one place (London) for the next 17 days. What a relief...that is after we drive though the traffic of London to return the rental car.
We left the hotel around 8:15 AM as planned and got stuck in London traffic as planned.
We arrived at the rental car agency just after 9:30 AM, with relief of being 30 minutes early. By the time we returned the car, we had driven almost 1,000 miles (979 miles to be exact), in 11 days. Wow...that's a lot of driving. By the way, here is a photo of our rental car we took a couple of days ago at the tin mines of Cornwall. It is a Fiat Tipo.
Now that we are in London, I will let the train conductors and bus drivers do all the driving for us. It was convenient that the rental car agency was located near the train station, so we headed in and was in our neighborhood in 30 minutes.
We arrived here earlier than we can check in, so we found a coffee shop and hung out there for 1.5 hours. They didn't seem to mind as we made purchases throughout our stay. We finally checked in, unpacked, and headed to the store for groceries. By the time we arrived back to the apartment, we decided to just stay in and start exploring London tomorrow. This gave me time to come up with a plan for the next 17 days. Using Rick Steves' London Guide, I came up with a day-by-day plan to ensure we see everything we want to see.
Oh...I forgot to mention. Do you remember the terrorist attack on London Bridge where 5 people were stabbed, 2 fatally? Well that just happened today. Just in time for our arrival to London. What is even more interesting is that we are going to be in that area tomorrow to visit an outdoor market. I guess we will see if it will be opened tomorrow. Until then...
We arrived here earlier than we can check in, so we found a coffee shop and hung out there for 1.5 hours. They didn't seem to mind as we made purchases throughout our stay. We finally checked in, unpacked, and headed to the store for groceries. By the time we arrived back to the apartment, we decided to just stay in and start exploring London tomorrow. This gave me time to come up with a plan for the next 17 days. Using Rick Steves' London Guide, I came up with a day-by-day plan to ensure we see everything we want to see.
Oh...I forgot to mention. Do you remember the terrorist attack on London Bridge where 5 people were stabbed, 2 fatally? Well that just happened today. Just in time for our arrival to London. What is even more interesting is that we are going to be in that area tomorrow to visit an outdoor market. I guess we will see if it will be opened tomorrow. Until then...
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