Hello from London

Kingston - London

Seeing that this is being written in London, looks like we made it here okay.  We did have a 5-hour wait at Montreal and Bob, Francine and Andrew made a wonderful effort to come to the airport and see us.  It is not easy getting to the airport and very expensive to park there, so we really appreciate their effort!  We will be with Bob and Francine again for a week when we dock in Florida after the cruise.


Thankfully, our flight to London was fast and smooth!  We upgraded to Executive Class and appartently that gave us larger seats and a better meal.  Even though the seats were larger, we found the Air Canada seats much more comfortable.  The meal was very nice, as well as the wine.  We were in the front row in Executive class and that gave us extra legroom.
Heathrow was rather interesting.  Once we got off the plane, we just followed the signs (went on a cool train) and very quickly we were through customs and baggage claim.  At 8 am, things are not very busy. We had a short walk to the Underground and 50 minutes later walked up the stairs, 2 blocks to our hotel.
I had booked our hotel through priceline.com.  Bidding on a hotel room is rather nerve-wracking and not knowing London, made it a challenge; but we got super room at a super price. We are at the NH Kensington which is of course in Kensington. Our check-in time was 3pm and we arrived there at 9 am.  They had a room all ready for us -- quite impressive.
We checked in and then checked out for a few hours!  Afterwards, we walked about 10 minutes and picked up the Hop-on-Hop-off bus tour.  Our ticket was good for 2 days + river cruise.  We spent the two days hopping around London and doing the river cruise.
We had lunch at a pub in Greenwich.  Enjoyed walking the streets before returning to the river cruise back to London.