Heading to London

After a very ordinary Edinburgh day yesterday, today dawned bright and sunny. Who would have thought.

Anyway, we packed up our bags, bid farewell to our substitute flat and walked down the hill to Edinburgh Waverley Station to catch our 10am train to London. We had booked first class tickets, which is an unusual thing for the normally tight-fisted Phil to do, but there you go. Our seats faced forward with a table in front of us, across which were two seats facing towards us. Inevitable these seats were occupied by an Aussie couple from Melbourne - she was very chatty, he was a grumpy old git. We were given food and drink regularly throughout the trip, which was nice enough and seemed to disprove the stereotype of really awful service on British rail trips.

We arrived at London Kings Cross station bang on time after four hours and forty minutes on the train, and took a taxi to our home for the next week, Captain Bligh House in Lambeth. We are staying in what used to be Bligh's sitting room...

...which looks out across Lambeth Road to parkland and the Imperial War Museum.

After we settled ourselves in, we went for a walk up to the nearby London Eye. We paid the outrageous cost to ride the Eye, but it does give amazing views of London...

After that we went for a walk along the side of the south bank of the Thames before we headed back to our rooms, via a convenient pub. We went to dinner at gastro pub (read "pretentious former working class drinking place") a few doors down from us. Very expensive. Phil had partridge (sorry Keith). Petra had plaice and chips.

Very tired now...