Kl to London 17/10/2010

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Marty & I in KL LCCT

Premium seat, laptop & Scotch on Airasia

Liverpool St Station

View from our B&B Sussex Gardens

Our room at Hyde Park B&B Sussex Gardens

Marty got cold on our balcony

We couldn’t have asked for a more cruisey morning, up early and down to breakfast, then up to the room to pack. Our last experience of catching a taxi to the airport from the Dorsett was stressful to say the least so this time we opted for the hotel car, which although pricey guaranteed a safe and stress free journey.  Checked in and made our way through customs etc, then went on the hunt for a camera. Found a cute little Olympus that has the same extras as our old (now broken) one so we could use all the same charger & batteries.

The flight to London was once again as good as the previous one, albeit longer (13. ½ hours and 11,000kms), but we did it in style, a bottle of scotch, 2 movies, a book & a few hours sleep and here we are in London.

The train station is below the terminal, and the trains to Liverpool St leave every 15 minutes, so we drew out some pounds & hopped on the first leg of our train journey. Amazingly fast train, that got us to Liverpool St in 45 mins, then ferreted our way around underground till we found the orange line to Oxford Circus, then ferreted around again till we found the brown line to Paddington. So far so good.

It was then that I realised that I didn’t have the address for our B&B anywhere, but no biggy, as soon as we climbed our way out of the underground, we were met with a McDonalds, so bought a coke and sat down to log onto their free WiFi, got directions and headed off again. Should have been easy except that I zigged when I should have zagged, and eventually rang the B&B to get directions. We arrived at about 10.30pm, met by Carol the owner who quickly gave us the key to our room & said we could check in in the morning. We had booked a room with an ensuite, but it wasn’t available till the morning, but the room we got has a huge balcony looking out onto Sussex Gardens, so we are hoping to stay in this room. We have a split level bed, a basin & cupboard, shower is on the top landing, toilet on the bottom landing.

Got up at 5 this morning, have no idea what time zone my brain is geared to, but it suits here just fine. Went to have a shower, but no hot water, ah well, when in London, do as the Londoners do, a birdie bath.

One thing we found strange was that when we arrived, I had on only jeans, T shirt & light cardigan, and it wasn’t that cold, but everyone here is rugged up like they are expecting a blizzard. It got a bit colder by about 11pm when we had to put coats on outside, but not anywhere near as cold as I thought, and there seems to be no clouds as we spotted stars, maybe we are in for good weather. Couldn’t be any worse than what we left at home.