Christmas London 2022

 It didn't take me too long to drift off to sleep. We didn't stay up too late, and got to bed around 10pm. The bed was lovely and comfy. However, it was pretty hot in the room. I slept okay, but woke a few times to reposition myself to  cool down and then doze back of to sleep. I got up about the usual time for me, about 7am. I thought I might as well have a shower and get up. I popped across to the coffee place to grab a few coffees to bring back to the room. We had with the cookies that we had brought from the deli the day before. It was such a pleasure to go the Hagen to get the coffees. It must have been about middle of the rush hour, not too busy. Yet they only had one guy both taking orders and doing the coffees. Yet they were still able to serve me in about 2-3 minutes from walking in the door to walking back out again. Kathryn got ready, and we sat out on the balcony for a little bit. It was quite cold, but the hotel room was quite hot, so I guess it evened itself out ...

 I am writing this the day after Boxing Day, so I will do my best to recall these events. We were blessed with very good weather for this trip to London, it was cold and dry which meant we didn't have to pack wet weather clothes. We had plenty of time when we changed at Leeds to get some pastries from Laynes. I got my usual cinnamon bun and Kathryn had a pecan breakfast bun, which was more like a Yorkshire pudding texture than bread. We had a good journey down. We were sitting opposite each other, the train got a little busy at one point, and it wasn't helpful that it was two trains joined together. So there was a lot of people 'stuck' in the wrong train until the next station. The weather was the same down in London, and we quickly made our way to South Kensington, after a brief viewing of the shop at St Pancreas. We had a quick sandwich at Pret, before getting a coffee. Unfortunately the hotel suite wasn't ready and so we dropped our bags and went out. We got the ...