Today, we woke up a little sluggish, Shaun cooked up some breakfast and Rach and I decided to head into town, I was meeting a friend in there, Katherine who is an English girl who’d come and stayed with me in Adelaide.
The train into London was a nightmare, on a good day, it should take around about an hour or so to get from Hollingbourne to Victoria Station in London.
Today, it took two hours, there was a signal fault on the line, so the train had to stop for 20 minutes, then it had to reverse back up the track to change lines. Then to top it off, at the next station, the automatic doors refused to open, which caused another delay. When we finally arrived, met with Katherine, had a beer, Rachael departed and Katherine was my tour guide for the day. She took me past Buckingham Palace, the Parliament building, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, through Green Park, Leicester Square, Picadilly Circus and plenty of other places.
We visited Winston Churchill’s underground bomb shelter and quarters which he and a load of Government officials and top military brass would meet and discuss war plans during World War II.
I got a bit of a thrill going onto the tube, it was out of this world. Millions of commuters use it every day and we were on it very close to peak hour. It is an absolute maze, and thank goodness that Katherine was there to guide me through the underground.
After a big day of sightseeing, jumped back on the train to Hollingbourne and met some of the boys that Shaun plays cricket with back at the club.
We kicked the Footy with them, some of them are quite good with the oval ball, the kick to kick broke out into a touch rugby match, was good to have a run around, I haven’t played too much sport for quite a while it was good to have a good run around with the lads.
Looking forward to uploading a couple photos that I took today.
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