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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The London photos. The first three were in the British Museum. Then there's St' Paul's Cathedral from the Millennium walking bridge over the Thames. A couple of obvious photos and the English Parliament House.

posted by Charles  # 9:21 AM

Monday, October 05, 2009

I usually don't need much time to get ready in the morning. So I left a little bit later than I wanted to for Gare du nord to go to London. My friend told me to get there at least 30 minutes before it left. I just missed a Metro and had to wait another 7 minutes for the next one. When I got there about 7:30am, there was already a very long line. They let a few people at a time through the automatic sliding doors. Then there were several lines for the English custom officials to grill us. Some went through faster than others. I was one of the last - as all the other lines went faster than mine. I wasn't too mad as 11 years ago when I was kicked out of England after I crossed the ferry from Calais to Dover so I wasn't necessarily too anxious to do this again. At least this time, I was where I lived so it wouldn't be so inconvenient. He asked me a bunch of the usual questions. "How long are you going to be in Europe?" "Three months." (I lied.) "Where is your return ticket?" "Back in my room that I am renting." (I lied. You get the picture.) "Well, OK. But next time make sure you bring it next time." "OK."

After going through the scanner which took about one minute more, I walked along the corridor and arrived two minutes before departure at the place where they check your ticket for the 4th time, they had shut the door down to the boarding platform. There were about 12 people - some who arrived there before me - who were being given tickets on the NEXT train that was going to leave in an hour. The guy I asked said they have to leave exactly on time because there was a 3 minute window for when the trains can enter the Channel Tunnel and if they didn't get there on time, it backs everything else up. I thought if this was early Sunday morning in late September what do they do in the summer when all the trains are booked all summer? This is definitely a recurring problem. Why don't they just build in a 3 minute fudge factor in the times so that if a train leaves late they can go 5 km. (3 m.) an hour faster to make up lost time? As it was, there was a 15 minute delay for us to enter the tunnel. As it is, that was the most exciting story about my trip to London.

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed my four days in London, the first time that I was spent any real time there. I went to see the major art museums which were free! I was to potentially meet a couple of people that I had met on Facebook (which would have been my first friendship meeting via the internet) but as it turned out, neither happened. I planned on one museum a day and to see the major sites as I walked around. So here are the photos.





































































posted by Charles  # 2:39 AM

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