The week-end in London, which was supposed to be a week-end at Autumn Cottage with Roz, is turning out quite different than planned. I do alot of solo travels and don't mind travelling alone, but this time it was not what I had planned, and it took me some time to adjust. At the airport in Oslo, while waiting for the plane, I took some phones, and with the help of a good travel agent friend ,I got a hotel on such a short notice. Finding the hotel was easy, I left my suitcase and walked out to explore - LONDON, HERE I AM!!!!!
I have been to London quite a few times, since I came here for the first time as a 15 year old language school student. It is nine years since I've been here now, these past years Roma and Venecia have had top priority on my travel list, but I still have the map of London memorized in my head, and it didn't take me long to make a list of what I wanted to see. More of this later, with photos, what I am going to tell about now is that friends are everywhere.
I had just arrived at British Museum around noon yesterday when I got a message on my cell phote. "Hi, we are at Oxford Circus waiting for you, are you coming?" My Norwegian friends Turid and Bjoern (who own a flat in Terracina) are in London for a few weeks. They had sent me a message on facebook yesterday which I never saw, but our cell phones connected us and we ended up spending a lovely day together. Then, late at night, back in my hotel room, with sore, sore feet, the hotel phone rang. "Hello" a nice voice said, "this is Linds from Rocking Chair Reflections". Linds reads my blog, found the name of my hotel, and afraid that I felt lonely in a big city, she phoned! We had a lovely talk. Thank you Linds!
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It is Sunday morning here now. I've been to The Round Pound in Kensington Gardens to feed the swans, and now I'll try to find my way out to Kew Gardens.
