We had to say goodbye to Budapest....what a great city! On to London! We took Wizz Airlines...that's what we thought....Wizz? In the end it was fine, the seats are not comfortable but its a 2 hour flight and all are luggage made it....so....It was fine. What was funny was the directions they send before take off. I received no less than 8 emails in the 2 days preceding the flight. They wanted us to get to the airport 3 hours before the flight. This is almost sacrilegious for Denise and I. We normally get there as the plane boards. However, we are in Budapest...we are flying Wizz....so we get there 2 hours before the flight. Not only did we arrive to wait 15 minutes to find out what gate we would be at at.....when we went to the gate there was no one .....and I mean no one.....anywhere near this gate or the 10 gates surrounding us. Within the hour it filled up.... again, we had an overall had a uneventful flight.
As we drove into London we went the back way....not many highways...Denise and I kept looking at each other....this is London? It was dirty broken down and just a mess. We now know that the guy basically brought us through a really crappy part of London.
We are staying at Apex Temple Court Hotel in Central London. Trying to find this place was like a going down memory lane to Vienna a few years ago. It was not as bad as Vienna, but this place is hidden in a court....hard to access and had no signs. The glass door was etched with Apex Temple...A Luxury Hotel. The doors we so small, you had to open both of them to pull my suitcase through....the three people n the lobby were all yakking it up seeing me and Denise struggle with the bags....upstairs to the counter....One finally came over and helped Denise. Then we checked in....turned around and there were our bags all ready form us to hump them to our room.....normally I would not have an issue ....but "Luxury". It should of said 'handle your own bags bitch'.
The Hotel is fine....luxury....no ....but very nice.
By the time we finally got settled, it was dinner time so we found Niche, a little Gluten Free restaurant in the Angel neighborhood. There was absolutely nothing on the menu, including drinks, that was not gluten free. Of course, the one thing Denise was most excited about was not available....deep fried onion rings....Denise figured it out. We both enjoyed our dinners and surprisingly the GF bread they served was very good.
Long day and a 40 minute walk each way to the restaurant brought us back to the Apex earlier....
It rained during dinner (It's London) but we made it both ways without getting too wet.
A first few things In noticed on our walk to the restaurant./. The first is this cool things I noticed ...on the ground in each crosswalk in Big letters.....LOOK LEFT...or.....LOOK RIGHT.....the traffic is on the other side of the road and it is easy to look the wrong way for traffic. The other thing I noticed are the amount on bicycles on the streets of London.. These people are crazy. The city is not really set up for all these bikes...but the are zooming around. You not only have to worry about cars but bikes. I almost got clipped ...and the guy on the bike doing at least 15-20 mph in a curve never flinched....crazy
lots more on London to come.....
No comments:
Post a Comment