And so after and all too brief sojourn in London we return. I always leave home base much earlier than I need to so we left our place in Selsdon which is somewhat south of East Croydon over two hours before the train's scheduled departure. I take the view that if you leave earlier then you need to, if anything goes wrong along the way it normally rights itself after a period of time so there's...
So we decided to basically do nothing and just be with my sister Philippa for most of the day. On Sunday morning she gets picked up and taken to church so meanwhile we decided to go to Croydon to do shopping at Primark. On the way to Primark there was a street market which was getting into gear and we bought two Portuguese specialty pastries for two pounds each which are small but delicious....
For this journey I'm going to focus on the images that I took on the grounds that one picture is worth a thousand words but I will also do a summary of the day. As if the normal busy sunny day traffic was not enough we had to suffer from a Palestinian protest outside the Houses of Parliament. Françoise decided to take the number 24 bus to the Mall Gallery to save her legs but I decided to walk....
I chose the bus leaving from Bristol at 13.00 to give us plenty of time to rise at a leisurely rate to catch the 172 to Bristol and have a decent breakfast. You will find a community cafe just outside Bristol bus station. What is not obvious is that it is part of a building that was a priory and has a rich history going back a few centuries. Some people working at the cafe have learning...
The satisfaction of advance planning If there's one thing I enjoy, it is advance planning. I make most of my plans for the main spine of my activities weeks before the event and that includes imagining what might go wrong and making corrections before I ever set foot on public transport or step in my car. I'm going to visit my sister in Croydon, London, in April and today is the time for booking...
Getting from A to B as cheaply as possible For most of my life I have not been in a good financial situation and have had to live hand to mouth. Now circumstances have changed thank goodness but the habits of not spending money when I don't have to, have remained. This article is dedicated to all those who have to watch the pennies as we say and the principles apply to anyone traveling anywhere....
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