Ramblings of a Northerner

London drivers

October 23rd, 2006

Had a smashing (notice how I adjust linguistically) breakfast this morning and felt much more adjusted for the time zone.  Bundled up mom and Anna in the car and the four of us left for London.  I had planned to drop off the car at the downtown location not too far from the hotel.  It was a straight line into London, didn’t even have to change streets really to get to the hotel, but it is still very stressful because the street names aren’t labelled and it was a constant watch by Karen that kept us on track.  We parked illegally on a side street while we checked into the hotel, dropped mom and Anna off with all the luggage and then got back in the car to attempt “the return”.  We were just south of Hyde park and needed to go up the east side of it to a complicated bit called the Marble Arch.  Due to Karen’s confidence and navigation skills, my slow and steady driving and a bit of luck from both of us where we just randomly said “turn here” we found the drop-off with only one quickly corrected mistake.  I definitely didn’t enjoy driving the four lanes up the east side of the park and trying to go around large roundabouts with so much traffic.  We took a taxi back to the hotel where we had lunch just around the corner (with a nice bartender taking care of us) and then used the rest of the day to unwind.

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