Strangers in a Strange Land

Well, it's a little overwhelming at the moment but we're in our hotel room safe and sound.

The flight went smoothly, the landing was smooth as buttah. Oh and we actually got served real food for the in-flight meal. It was pretty yummy!

We managed to navigate our way to the train station to take the Heathrow Connect to Paddington station, then with the help of some friendly staff we got our way to an open ticket booth to buy some Oyster cards. We then went and took the Circle Line to King's Cross St. Pancras and transferred to the Northern Line and finally arrived at Old Street Station. I'm amazed we didn't get lost or eaten by a bear quite honestly.

I commented to Eva that this must be what it's like to have real public transit. Seriously, compared to Metrobus back home the tube was crazy efficient. Though the Victoria Line was down for repairs, so I guess we were lucky we didn't need to take that today.

From Old Street Station we almost got lost but luckily we managed to find a street sign to help us get our bearings (seriously, how the heck do you find out what street you're on here?) and turned around to head to Great Eastern Street. Managed to cross two very busy streets without being run over by a car, so a real bonus there! The Hoxton at night seems to be quite the popular spot. Lots of people in the lounge. I was feeling rather shy so I didn't really snap any pictures.

The rooms are really very cozy. The decor is slick and modern. Lots of great little freebies such as WiFi, milk, bottled water, tea and coffee, etc. Little touches help make it a really nice place.

Hopefully we'll have enough time to explore, 3 days doesn't feel like enough to take in a city the size of London. I suppose if we stick to the central bits we should be okay. Tomorrow we'll be checking out the British and London Visitor's Centre (near Piccadilly Circus) to get our bearings and some cheap maps and such and then hitting up some museums and maybe Buckingham Palace to take some pictures.

Anyways I'm not sure what else I can say at this point... I'm doing a very British (and Newfoundlander, to be honest) thing and drinking a cup of tea (actually a mug... I hope nobody minds) while uploading some choice photos to Flickr.

Cheerio!