1st day in London

So we arrived safe and sound in London and caught our bus to the hotel . They stopped at 4 different hotels ours being the last, the driver said it was about 18 miles but with rush hour traffic and lots of ins and outs it took about an hour and  a half to get where we were going.  London streets are not on the square 'like we are use to, so it was very confusing. Also all the buildings are about 5 or 6 stories, homes on the top floors and stores on the ground  floors very cool bust oh so confusing. The hotel wasn't ready for us so we left our baggage and went in search of Picadiily Circus, not knowing that a circus in London means circular road we really didn't know what we were looking for. We got some directions from the hotel but we still had no idea where we were going. On our way through a park we had a nice young man as if we'd like tea, there was a Royal Albert tea party, going on. Very nice people who did  their best in helping us on our way.

We did find Chinatown and must have been in the right    general area but I don't think we actually got their. Coming back I had the general idea how to get back  but it wasn't right, so after stopping a few very nice people and checking a few "you are here" maps we finally got back to the hotel found our rooms which are incredibly tiny, comfortable. We then met up with Nancy's cousins for supper in the pub...an ale on tap and fish and chips.

 The food was delish, the beer tastee and Nancy's cousins were very nice fun people.  It was an early evening ending our 30 plus hours of being awake. I crashed for about 2 hours and then the sound of the pub woke me up, after 20 minutes of tossing and turning I got up took my pillow and blanket and went and slept in the tub which was surprisingly comfy.  Once the pub closed I moved back to bed and had a pretty good sleep, speaking of which its that time again so good night for now