Welcome to London.

Wednesday 4^th September.  

Refreshed and ready for the next challenge, it wasn’t too hard to get back to Heathrow, find the Tube, get tickets and head into London. Our accommodation is right near Kings Cross St Pancras station, so a direct train ride and once we find our way through the construction zone at the station and get our bearings, Judd St is just a block away.

Our apartment is an absolute delight. Bigger than I had expected from the photos on the net, a good sized bedroom, good sized living room, small but functional kitchen and the  bathroom, well, I don’t think you can call it a bathroom …… it’s the one disappointment, but you can’t have everything. It’s crammed in to the funny shaped little space that’s left and the shower is certainly a challenge. Gotta go up 2 steps to get into it, must be an English thing. There’s a pub across the road on the corner, one up the road on the next corner and one around the corner and at the end of the block.

London is having a bit of a heatwave, temperatures in the high 20’s when it was supposed to be the high teens! But I have been reassured that the weather will turn to rubbish by the weekend. While the sun shines we decide to do the Hop-on, Hop-off bus, something we weren’t going to do, but we were still tired and it was hot so it was a worthwhile thing to do without much effort. And it gives us a river cruise as part of the deal which we’ll use tomorrow when we go to Greenwich.

Takeaway pizza for dinner, with a bottle of wine from the off-licence downstairs (how handy is that?) and off to bed. Day 1 in London, officially over.