London
23/10/2011 Sunday
Lazy day. Up early to do my laundry at the local Laundrette. All my shirts, socks, underwear including thermals (it is sunny if not particularly warm). I have to sit and watch the laundry because I was warned by one of the "regulars" that if you leave it you risk not finding it when you get back! A tough neighbourhood. [Actually a very tough neighbourhood; I just managed to avoid a "tribal confrontation" outside the Laundrette that required the intervention of a Police "bus" with six local police. All that was missing was the police dog squad!]
After the laundry I had a McDonalds breakfast and used their WiFi. I sorted-out my transport to get to lunch with James Taylor tomorrow and also for to get to the MoD in Whitehall on Tuesday. I still have to work out my trip to Heathrow on Friday, but I will ask at the Railway station. There has to be a "step-free" option somewhere to get me from the the District to Piccadilly lines with my luggage.
On Friday I have to check-out of the Travelodge by 10 o'c am but my plane leaves at 8.0 o'c pm that night. I do not savour an 8 hour wait in the Heathrow transit lounge (previously I was only allowed into the Qantas Club 2 hours before my flight). Normally I would leave the luggage with the hotel desk and pick it up later when I was ready to travel but I get the feeling this is not the case with Travelodge. I may have to choose between the lesser of evils!
I had a genuine "British roast beef lunch' at the local Apprentices restaurant, then used the Barking Council library for a quiet place to transfer/back-up my MA images onto a memory stick. I can put that back-up into my "money-belt" for safe keeping. Unfortunately the library free WiFi is malfunctioning so I have to use the local McDonalds. This is not "incident free" so I use it with discretion (i.e., daylight only, usually breakfast).
Dinner was a "Doner Kebab" from the closest take-away to my Hotel. I am not worried about the cold but the local populace on the weekend.
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