LONDON!!!! As per usual, traveling is difficult for me... Getting to London was a process. In the future, I now know not to travel on a Bank Holiday. With lovely holidays about every week, it's difficult to know what's going on, but on a bank holiday you can pretty much bank on the fact that public transportation will be limited. (See what I did there?? Bank? Hehe.) getting out of Paris meant taking three metros to the Paris Gare du Nord station to catch the Eurostar across the pond and over to the UK. If you think that a young woman, traveling alone and staying with family in London wouldn't be a problem with security, you'd be incredibly wrong. Getting out of France and crossing over the two feet to the UK border security check point was easy, but this UK woman had it in for me! My entire life story, background info, previous job experience, flight info to and from Europe, a glimpse at my bank account, three addresses and 15 minutes of questioning later, I finally made it past her and had to RUN to catch the train.
London was better!!! But every line I needed to take on the tube was down... Soooo about 4 tube transfers, a bus and a 20 minute walk and I finally arrived at my cousins flat in Kew!!! Huzzah. I've discovered I need to just plan for shenanigans to happen and roll with it, because it always happens. Always.
Love, Alison
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