Early Morning London

A cup of coffee, the quiet of the morning, looking out at a beautiful green flowering garden in mid London, with my laptop on my knee...could one ask for anything more.

We had a very smooth flight from Toronto to London but sleep did not prevail. It was very frustrating listening to the snoring behind, in front and next to me but I could not go into that zone. I even contemplated laying in the aisle on the floor with my 10 inch pillow but that thought only lasted a second. We were met at the airport by my cousin Linda. We had arranged a meeting place but did not see each other for a few minutes. It had been 19 years since we had seen each other and maybe we had changed a small bit. She only lives an inch away from Heathrow on my map but it is actually 30 miles which took us about 90 minutes in London traffic. As we curved in and about the streets, Linda laughed as I kept saying .."Oh everything is so British". We arrived at her beautiful, old Victorian home with so many individual little rooms that they have decorated in such wonderful interesting ways.They think it was built in about 1850ish. Linda's Mom Marj (my first cousin) arrived a short time later to stay while we are here and it was so great to see her again. Marj has not lived in Canada for 60 years, has visited often though, but still thinks of it as home and so loves to touch base with it through us. We spent the morning at the kitchen table reminiscing and in the afternoon we went to Greenwich Park, walked and looked at beautiful views of the skyline of central London and all the buildings of
in the area such as the Royal Observatory and the Greenwich Time Museum. It was cool, and windy but was a great way to keep us awake to fight jet lag. We returned home and had an early supper before heading to bed at 8:30. At this point I had been awake 36 hours and a bed has never felt so good. I had a great 8 hours and H is still sleeping and may for a few more hours as his body adjusts. Today we plan to do a bit of touring by car, a pub lunch and more visiting.