Spent the morning doing some house keeping on the Common overlooking the very pleasant town of Dorking. Not too hot early but got a lot warmer the closer we got to London. The Brits are beside themselves with this sort of weather for their end-of-summer long weekend.
Our trip into London, not something we look forward to on a Friday afternoon, took a different route to the one we would normally take. Our journey today took us to Camberwell and Maddie's house.
Some interesting moments with the outstanding one being Google maps turning us into a street where the height limit was 2.6 metres! This was interesting as we were in very very heavy traffic! We stopped, horns started blasting, our hazard lights went, and the driver left the vehicle!!! Not much sympathy from the other drivers but what can you do! After a while some saw the necessity for common sense and allowed us room to back out! All in a days driving!!!
... to the frantic London traffic ...
Arrived at Maddie's place in Camberwell where she had a working-from-home day. Lovely to see her and Laura and their flat.
Spent an hour with them before facing the last stretch of the journey to the City. Five miles in one hour! Arriving in Fann Street we were able to park in our usual weekend spot and settled down for a three day layover!
Later Maddie, Laura, James and Gerda came around and we had a very entertaining session in Hilton before moving on to a great Italian restaurant around near Old Street. Very enjoyable company and excellent food.
Home to bed after midnight! How lovely it is to catch up with Maddie and James. A great night!
