Mal's travels - A story about my journeys by Mal J Robinson: Day 10 - London

Today started with me being quite tired but as for some reason my exec room did not include breakfast I got more chance to mooch around the room and wake up before I had to leave for work. And as there seems to only be me there I was not going to go in early choosing to do a bit of work from the room before finally at 8.30 a.m. rushing to get ready and going into the office.

I seem to spend a lot of time glancing out of the window looking for the storms that have been promised today and around 1.30 p.m. I was rewarded as the rain came and the wind howled across the area, it was interesting to look at for about two minutes and then I decided I would get my first walk of the day in and braved the elements before diving into St Pancras for my first lap.

It seems to me that down here people pay less notice of the weather, I wonder because there is so much more undercover, a lot of transport is by tube so you have no idea what he weather is like as you zip across the capital. Also people seem to use taxi’s more, so again, less time spent out in the weather and getting direct to their arrival point. I have noticed that there is less coffee carried when the rain is falling even though when they are carried this have lids on so it is not because they don’t want rain water contaminating their artificially processed hot drink.

The walk back to the hotel was wet, the rain was coming down quite bad so I opted for the route through Kings Cross and on the underpass and covered about the first 25% of my journey to the hotel underground.

After the night before when I relaxed in my exec room, tonight a couple of colleagues were here and so we decided to walk into London and now that the rain had stopped thought we would take that to the max and go for a full walk to the centre again.

We set off from my hotel near Russel Square, mainly because mine was the hotel on route, we walked to Tottenham Court Road and then to Oxford Circus, we turned south and headed toward the river. W did break for dinner just south of Oxford Circus but were soon back on the road and got to the river via Pall Mall, Horse Guards parade and the Cabinet War Rooms by 9.30 p.m. We crossed the river at Westminster taking in Big Ben and the houses of Parliament before walking on the south bank crossing back to Embankment Tube Station where we got a tube back.

But it was a lovely night and some pictures below show a couple of the shots I took on route. I got back to my room around 11.30 p.m. and because of the good walk managed to get a much better sleep.