The Adventure Begins Tuesday, Sept. 7

I'm a little behind on this blog so I'll have to label the reports with the actual days they happened.

The cab queue at Paddington

We anticipated Starting our adventures the first day, but reality had other ideas. After over nine hours of feeling like Spam in a Can on the plane, we landed just after noon in Heathrow. It took nearly an hour to clear the UK border entry. Finding the Heathrow Express was easy and we were at Paddington Station 30 minutes later. We needed to get a cab to our hotel, but this turned out to be a process. The queue was enormous for a one-fare-at-a-time cab pick-up. Over an hour after arrival at Paddington we were finally on the last leg of our journey to the hotel. We were starting to feel jet lagged now. We looked at each other and agreed we'd done enough for the day.

The staff at our hotel is great. The room isn't fancy,but better than we feared. We have a great location just north of Hyde Park. One block over is a major shopping and restuarant street.