Last days in England

After leaving Fiona's, we checked into a hotel near Heathrow. Unfortunately our room was on the street side so we didn't get to watch the big planes floating by towards the runways, except from the car park!

We spent a day returning the car to Calais. This meant leaving the hotel at 7am, driving on the M25 ring road around London, in ever increasing traffic, then on to Dover. We caught the ferry across, drove the car back to the terminal building after an unintentional detour down a few km of the road to Paris, and handed over the documentation, only just in time to catch the next ferry back to Dover. Then it was a bus from the port to the railway station, a train to Waterloo, and another out to Twickenham, where we had a lovely evening with Laurie, a friend of Ann's from way back, and her partner Lyn.



The next day we travelled to Greenwich to see "the line". We all know about Greenwich mean time, but do we all know that this is zero longitude, the Prime Meridian of the World? Or that the reason "the longitude problem" became increasingly necessary to solve was because of all the people dying at sea with no idea where they were? It took us multiple bus and train rides, and then some time to find where the line was as it was not well signposted from the station, but well worth the effort.


And Wellington, with its longitude, was acknowledged there beside the line.

;-) Ann-a-Gram