London Trip Nov. 27 - Dec. 03, 2002

I have a breakdown of the events that I did each day below, but here are some general observations during the trip. The pollution in the tubes really started to bother me towards the end of the trip. The escalators move twice as fast as the ones in the US. The population seemed to be thinner then the general US population. The parks get a lot of use, in the otherwise crowded city. The work hours seem to be later in the morning, a 9:00 to 6:00 work schedule seems to be the norm. There seemed to be a scheduled of coffee and pastry in the morning before work and a beer and socializing after work. I did a lot of walking in London and walking was a good way to get across the city if you did not want to ride the tube for everything, walking was easy coming from a mile high city to a sea level city.

My basic day involved getting up, have breakfast at the hotel, taking a walk in the morning until the tube price dropped and then seeing a couple major tourist attractions. On a number of days I managed email home for free at libraries. Every night I would spend time writing down in a journal what I saw that day, as well as going over my itinerary for the next day,  read through some guide book about what I would see, and watching some British News on TV.

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Trip Schedule break down
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