March 15, 2004
Weekend escape
I'm on my way back from a weekend in London, where I went to escape for a bit and relax (in a "doing something completely different" kind of way; the number of miles walked would indicate it wasn't in a restful way!). It was, on the whole, a thoroughly cool weekend. The photo on the right is the view from the hotel room. Absurdly good.
In the course of the weekend, Paul and I got to catch up with Thom, hit Wagamamas (still nothing quite like it in Norwich), misread maps on my phone to double the distance between points A and B, get culture with the wobbly bridge and Tate Modern (good to see how many exhibits had changed since I was last there), drink disturbingly expensive but thoroughly decent wine, take pictures of the London Eye and then find out how it was built in the Science Museum, and take in a film in Leicester Square.
Alas, I'm now subject to public transport at it's very best: surly staff, delayed trains, and a coach rail replacement service for the first leg of the journey. Just to rub it in, there was a crash on the motorway, so we're now running even later. The journey to Norwich normally takes around two hours. Today's journey time: four hours.
On the plus side, I used my mobile to grab the latest blog news in NetNewsWire this morning, so now I'm back on a train I can catch up on what I missed over the weekend. I'd been trying to decide whether to sleep on the way home or whether to do stuff on the laptop - this trip was so long I got to do both. Hurrah! For the record, it's impossibly uncomfortable using a laptop on a coach, and motorway lighting plays havoc with the laptop's ambient light detection. At one point, the keyboard lights and screen were literally strobing ...
Currently listening to A Higher Place from the album Melody A.M. by Röyksopp
Posted by savs at March 15, 2004 3:19 AM