- The architecture
- The flower baskets all around the city... it IS Summer
- The friendliness (folks will say hello... take note Noo Yorkers)
- The fact I actually got into Wimbledon and it was literally a walk up start.. no queuing, no crowds
Things that I don't like:
- The hotel we stayed at... everyone take note: Do not stay (ever) at the Shaftsbury Premier Hyde Park Hotel!!! Dump Dump Dump
To do list for London:
- Get Air Conditioned Trains
- Get Air Conditioned Buses
- Get disabled access in the Underground (it was so hard to drag mum around going up and down the stairs)
- Get Air Conditioning in hotel rooms that work!
Wimbeldon was great. First impressions was that is was manucred to within an inch of its life. I was so happy to get Court 1 tix but i spent most of the time wandering around ont he outside courts. It worked for me once at the Oz Open and again this time, I was sitting 10ft away from Roger Federer practicing on Court 16. What a treat! I also saw Pat Cash playing an invitational doubles match. Lots to see and do there and I think I saw and did it all!
We also took in a bus trip around London, did a Thames Cruise, went to the British Museum where mum disappovingly walked around the Parthenon Marbles declaring they be shipped back to their real home... I tend to agree.
As a final day visit, I went off to the Freud Museum where Freud spent his last year living with his daughter Anna. That was interesting seeing as his famous couch was there. At £12 a photo... I did what any intrepid traveller does and that is ignored the "No Photos" sign, snapped my own couch photo and ran.
All in all, four good days in London. Weather has been lovely, warm and humid; just enough to thaw out of the Aussie Winter weather. We're in the BA lounge right now waiting for our flight to Athens at 11:45am.
Chat soon.
Tina x
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