Bits o’ London
So my very gracious hostess, Marcella, let me crash at her flat for a week in London. The best advice she told me was to buy a week’s credit on an Oyster card, the key to London tube and bus services. You can buy one for different zones based on where you need to go, obviously farther is more expensive. I purchased a Zone 1 to 3 card for a week’s unlimited travel, which individually would have cost me way more than what I paid for the week at 30-ish British Pounds. I don’t think the shock of how much more expensive London is than any other part of the world I’ve been in ever wore off. I think I moaned and groaned for the first few days non-stop until Marcella had to smack me upside the head and tell me to get a grip. So I resigned myself to fun within reason, and from then on I think we had a great time. We went south to her mum’s, who by the way is an excellent! cook, to stay for a night in a little town called Wellington. While the house was gorgeous, her mum was even more so. Any man of Marce’s (or sister Amy’s for that matter) who makes the trip to see her mother will realize what a catch he has (if he hasn’t already figured that out) since her mum’s inner beauty is balanced by her outer beauty and her astounding ability to cook a roasted duck and parsnips! Did I mention how great a cook she is??!! When we returned to London, I had a few days to myself to travel around and get organized for Italy. I snapped some shots of a few of London’s better known sights and the modern oddity they call London Eye juxtaposed against Big Ben. I am not sure whether 15-20 British Pounds is worth a ride on an enclosed ferris wheel. Maybe someone else can interject on that one.
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