Air conditioning our Hotel room in London The day we arrived in London the temperature was over 30c so the trip to our hotel was a bit uncomfortable.

Coming from Australia where the summers are hot, hot, hot means that everything is air conditioned so when you get into a mini-van in London with NO air conditioning with 10 other people on a really hot day and drive for two hours to get to you hotel you start to feel a little uncomfortable. Added to this is the fact that you have been sitting on a plane for 24 hours prior to this.

The hotel itself was pretty interesting. Fantastic location (we were opposite the tube) but the rooms were the size of closets. You actually had to step over the bed to get to the bathroom and if you dropped the soap in the shower you had to get out of the shower to pick it up.

As you can see in the photo above, this was our attempt at cooling down the room. We had to use a bottle of water as a weight to keep the window open.

There was a fire drill in the middle of the night which is apparently a customary exercise. So we all filed down to the lobby, my friend and I dressed before joining the rest of the pajama clad bunch in the lobby.

Breakfast was the usual, sausages, bacon, baked beans, toast, eggs and deep fried bread, which I hadn’t dared to eat since I was a kid. No worries here about cholesterol and transfats.

We had a lovely time visiting the Tower of London and Buckingham Palace.

Because we were a bit jet lagged and out of sync with our own timezone, we ended up sightseeing at 4am in the morning, if nothing else we got some lovely tourist free photos.

Here is Paula relaxing before we set out to go to the train station.

London is certainly interesting with lots of historic places to visit and we will return for a longer visit, and maybe in the winter next time.

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