Up at 5.30 am to get the 6.30 am bus into the city, It was pouring with rain. Wonderful. Anyway, we met Sue by the casino pick up point and bang on 7.30 am the coach picked us up.
We drove through varying degrees of rain, from drizzle to torrential. We arrived in London around 1.30 pm. Driver dropped us in Oxford Street and not Covent Garden. Any complaints we were told were to be addressed in the forms handed out at the end of the trip. Again. Wonderful.
We wandered down a few streets and found a pub called The Three Tuns. Apparently its been there since 1841.
That's the thing with London, you have beautiful buildings side-by-side with ugly, affluent houses and apartments crammed in with run down areas that probably cost the earth as it is. Garret rooms where 18th and 19th century artists probably starved, and probably still do, only now they get charged thousands for the privilege.
I personally love all the pillared mews houses. I can't imagine how much they cost, and I bet most of them are flats now, to maximise the rents.
The coach picked us back up at 4.30pm. We were ready to get to the hotel. Trouble was we picked the wrong time to leave London. Rush hour! Stuck in traffic we got to hotel late for food, and we eventually sat down to eat at 7.15pm. The food was good, but Sue had gone past eating so when we were done we went to our rooms. I showered once we were unpacked and settled down to chill out. We have another early start in the morning breakfast at 6.30 am ready to leave for Chelsea Flower Show at 8... Let's hope tomorrow runs smoother than today. Don't get me wrong I had a blast in the pub. Just the long drag to the hotel put a damper on it... I think this will be our last trip to London, and we will look elsewhere for something to visit...
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