Categories: buildings-and-cities
Date: 10 April 2007 23:21:30
Easter over, lets get back to learning about London.
Today showed me just how much easier life is in urban environments than out of them. Just how much the well-connectedness and mutual interependence of things can make life simpler. I didn't go to work today and stayed in bed all morning. At 3pm (2pm in God's time) I was lying on my bed reading the Ship of Fools. (I have a posting from 15:09 to prove it - Isn't wireless Internet access wonderful?) I then washed, got dressed, walked to the station (phoning my daughter on the way - she's somewhere in the Midlands looking after puking persons), bought a week's travel pass with my credit card, got on a train, went to Greenwich, bought a ticket to the film, went to the toilet again, and was in the cinema well in time for the 15.45 showing of Amazing grace. (Which is worth seeing apart from the last scene). Not that there was any point in being on time, there were ten minutes of trailer to sit through before the actual film. And they have decent air-conditioning (it was actually hot in London today), reclining seats, and a bar right next to the (very small) auditorium with a panoramic view of Greenwich and you can take your drinks into the show. (I has an espresso - it was only 4pm). Then sit in the bar afterwards for a decent pint of Staropromen and a great view and back home by train, taking me all of 15 minutes. Try doing that in the country. Sometimes cities just work.
Today I like London.
Tomorrow I have to go back to work.