Saturday, January 10, 2009

London
Hi all,
We have just spent 2 days in London - here is a brief summary of London:

Fri (4:00 am) - Woke, showered ate a quick brekky and were on the road before 5 am.
Extremely cold and foggy, as soon as we went over the Severn Bridge (links Wales to England) the fog got real bad, after an hour we had used up all the water in the windscreen wahser, so we pulled up at a "Services" (for Aussies a petrol station on the freeway). We took about 5 minutes to open the bonnet (bloody French car with everything on the wrong side! - Well spotted Peter Meaden re sunroof!). The windscreen was half frozen and very salty (they had been salting the road). After filling the washer and tried to squirt the windscreen - the "squirters had frozen up and now no water could come out - FUN! Finally got back on the road 15 minutes later and icing on the windscreen was hardly a problem after this - although Kristin's side froze up because no water was coming out of the "squirter" on her side.

Arrived at Euston (2 km north of the Thames in London) at about 8 am. The GPS has already paid for itself about 4 times over!

I was lucky enough to spend most the day inside listening to people talk, whereas Kristin, Billy, Declan and Thyson (An exchangee's boy) went walking the town, here are some shots:
Yes there was blue sky (remember I spent all day inside - see the next days and pics!!)


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