Leaving London
17 05 11 00:46
We’re at Heathrow Airport this morning waiting for leg one of our flight home. Monday was our last day in London, and we decided to see it from a different angle, taking a cruise on the Thames. Our hope that the London crowds would be easier to negotiate proved vain - less people than at the weekend, but still a crowded international zoo of humanity. London is full of historically significant sites and awesome structures like St Paul’s and the Tower Bridge, but we’ve decided that its real beauty lies in its people, away from the maddening crowds of central London. Monday’s dinner, appropriately enough, was a delicious pub meal of fish and chips. Who would have guessed that I will miss these pubs!
This morning we took a taxi to Paddington station - London taxi drivers really ARE the best in the world - and hopped on the Heathrow Express train for the 15 minute ride to the airport. (A taxi all the way would likely have taken an hour and cost more.) Perhaps because it is a small country, perhaps because of different social values, the rail system here is efficient, reliable, and usually comfortable - though not necessarily cheap.
It’s been good to be here, but I’m not sorry we’re leaving. Home is looking mighty attractive!
