LONDON TOWN!

Day 206

London, England

We made it back to London!!!

We left Brussells at 9pm on our very cheap British Airways flight and arrived in London at 9pm!!!!

One hour time difference. So we're now 7 hours behind WA!

And we're back to pounds..!

And although Greg whinged about coming back here....due to being harrassed at customs, (not so bad this time seeing we're heading out to the US in a couple of days!) the horrific queues at the airport, the expense, the weather blah blah blah.....

We're here and we're enjoying it!

And our accomodation isn't as expensive as last time. We got savvy. Decided to book our hotel, as we did the first time we got accomodation here, at the BHRC HOTELS at Heathrow Airport. They're so good! Anyway, it's 60 quid a night for the two nights in London before we head off to the US...which is about the cheapest out..and breakfast this morning was not so bad.

We're in a renovated university complex, with toilet and shower outside..but at least it's not £75 like last time, in that horrible accomodation we had when we had to move out of our initial London luxury accomodation..(which was the special because they were working on the hotel).

Oh yeah, forgot to say, we ended up forfeiting the accomodation at that hotel that offered us a room for 15 pound more than we had originally been quoted. And yes, i did sent the 'nasty' letter..buggar them...they shouldn't be able to just get away with saying, 'London has been going crazy this week with extra bookings so the price has gone up!' I know they do it, but not after they've already quoted a price and we've agreed on it. I felt really let down. Silly hotel. Doesn't do much for London Tourism either because you don't trust that next time a hotel won't do that. We were relying on that hotel to stay in and once they said everything was booked we got worried.

But like i said, it's better anyway to get the last minute accomodation at the BHRC HOTELS desk at Heathrow! It's been cheaper and more efficent both times in London.

The only thing is Customs don't like you arriving with no address to go to!

Okies...so now we're off to finish what we didn't before...

To see the old place i stayed when i was here with Mum and where Annie lived in 1977 (Annies old London house) and to the London Eye....(hopefully, if this rainy english weather clears up!) and to see a West End play.

And of course, we need to be fattened up, we're skinny pinny's now...having lost weight with all the EXTREMELY healthy eating and food in Northern Europe!!!! And London is the place to do it..if i recall, England is where we put on a few kilo's eariler in the trip! haha!

Will let you know how it goes....

Lots of love and hugs.....

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PS Good to catch up on all the blogs..we couldn't get internet in Amsterdam!