Lovely London, 24 June 2024

 Lovely London, 24 June 2024

Unfortunately, I became ill overnight, with what turned out to be Covid, thought at the timeI thought it was just a cold. So, Barney headed off for the excursion to Southwark and the Mayflower tavern. Meanwhile, I relaxed in the room, read a lot, sniffled and coughed along so I would not spread it around. At one point I went up to the top level lounge as everyone was gone into London, and just enjoyed looking out at the city. It was 84º which is really quite warm for London, so even from a distance I could see that folks were hot and tired. 

Barney returned and gave me an update on the excursion which was nice. He saw the replica of the Mayflower and went to the tavern for lunch, which was old and felt very authentic. They  visited the site of the original Globe theater and the site of the new Globe theater as well.

We had dinner in the room and packed for our very early - 6:00am! departure. Although our flight was later in the morning, they take people in groups and we were with an earlier group, though some folks had to depart at 4:00am!  The bus ride to the airport took aout an hour and we drove through some interesting neighborhoods, and past Buckingham Palace where tourists were already lining up. Everything went smoothly at Heathrow, and we had a ncie flight back. It felt good to get home on BART, though I must admit I missed the limited decision-making required on this trip and how much was done for us (cooking, cleaning, navigating, getting into places) , so different than most of our very independent travel. And Norway was stunning ... we'll be back.