London & Kent

18 years ago - #England

For some reason, David became concerned that he wasn't going to make platinum this year. He always operates under the assumption that he doesn't travel much. We planned a short week in London as an easy way to rack up some miles and figured we could see some shows, visit the countryside and bum around London.

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London & Kent
David and I took the day flight to London, as opposed to the red-eye, to help with jet lag. Our flight was around 8:30pm, it's about a 6 hour flight, and you arrive in London around 8:30pm. I can't think through the math right now to know if that's right. Perhaps I'm conditioned from many previous red-eye flights, but whenever I arrive in Europe, I'm exhausted. I don't know what it is about sitting on a plane for more than a few hours.
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When David and I were first planning our trip to London, I commented that this is the first time we've gone to London without the need to purchase any antiques. His response was "well...there are those side tables in the living room...".
Our next stop was Dover to see the castle and the white cliffs. It looked from the map that we could wakl to the castle. However, when we got to Dover we had two obstacles: although we could clearly see the castle from the middle of town, we couldn't figure out how to walk to it; and secondly, it looked like quite a hike up a cliff to get to the castle. We were already pretty tired, so we hired a cab. We learned that our fears were well founded. We never would have found it and the ride was pretty long and steep.