Famous Last Words

So, you know I said I’d not be diving near London, well I did, but only because the trains were rubbish yesterday. You see we did our research on tinternet and found that we could catch a train to London from a local station - Hedge End. The journey time was the same as from Southampton Central, and Hedge End has a free car park! Much better than getting the bus to town. All this careful forethought went out the window when Mother Nature chose to flood the station further down the track (Botley) and stopped all the trains. The options given to us by the man at the station were
a) Wait for the replacement bus to take us to Eastleigh and then get the train from there, but he had no idea when the next one was
b) Drive to Eastleigh and get the train from there where parking is not easy

So north bound on the M3 heading for Richmond where I knew of a car park near the tube station. As luck would have it we found it with not much bother.

Here are the highlights of the day… Oxford Street - busy. Harrods - did you know they sold cats and dogs and rabbits and goldfish and watches costing £50,000? Covent Garden, then Trafalgar Square and theatre land to Piccadilly Circus (nice lights) to Regent Street (nicer lights) and back to Oxford Street – now 6pm and much more busy. Then back to the car and home. Fhew!

Summing up…
£15 petrol
£11 Tube Tickets
£11 Car park
£37 Total - £18.50 each

And I’ll defiantly be taking the car again.