Ramblings of a Northerner

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October 24th, 2006

I went to work today to meet our Docklands team.  That was fun, seem like nice guys.  Part of the unfun bit is that when you travel for work, you have to miss all the neat stuff.  The ladies all went on a tour of London today, hopping on the double decker bus and travelling all through the city.  Then they got on a boat and did a short tour of the Thames river (or so it seems from the pictures anyway) — apparently that’s the way to see London, from the the water.  I took the tube back from Canary Wharf to the hotel, a cost of £3 vs £30 for the taxi in the morning going to work (now I know where I’m going, I’ll tube it tomorrow).  We had a dinner in a pub just down the street from the hotel but the service was abysmal; afterwards we found that there was a button beside the table marked “push for service” (d’oh).  Karen and I took Anna and mom to the train station via the tube.  Had about 3-4 switches which was more than needed and made the trip seem unnecessarily complicated.  It is also so hot in the tube which we didn’t like so much, but that’s what you get when you have thousands of travellers hundreds of feet underground (can’t imagine what that’s like in August).  Got them settled on the train and said goodbye and made sure they were safely on their way to Mike’s.  Karen had to go to the washroom but in the station they are all toll controlled.  After wandering around the theatre area and spending 40p we headed back to the hotel for our final sleep in London.

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