Tubing

16 jan

Off to see our good friend Ed in Greenwich for some lunch and slowly getting our head around the subway here (read Rach doing well t struggling).

Trains are very different here- manhattan is long and thin so it is hard to get it wrong. London is weblike so easy to get a long way from your destination.

Kensington is nice, has a nice 'high' (main) street inc Harrods. Some kitschy theming like 'the Egyptian escalators'.

All retail here is expensive cf USA. They have the same numbers but the pound sign makes it much more expensive. Great to see they have Whole Foods Market here too- a pity that Coles and woollies have a stranglehold on the Aust market as they would be a great fit- great gf section.

Now on overland train after 3 connecting tube trains 'severely delayed'.

Looking forward to finding wifi we can use- all the free public stuff here requires that you have a local phone connection too, hotel takes kidney as daily acces fee.

Update- just found out how to use the wifi cloud at local pubs- yay!!!

Thanks Ed for a great tour of Greenwich!