We have now been one entire day in London and Jared and Jo have made us very welcome...even giving up their bed for us... and London is great - very full of people (and it's only Sunday) but great!
We left Singapore for Heathrow at 9.05am with another breakfast airplane-food style - our second in about four hours. However travel in daylight hours meant that, combined with a brilliantly clear weather pattern, we had a clear view of vast tracts of the earth's surface in various countries. From the green lushness of India to the browning out of the land in Pakistan, where small patches of intensely farmed land petered out when the water did; to the sandy beige mountains of Afghanistan with long rift valleys and wind-eroded hillsides. Over the Ukraine we saw a very closely settled and farmed countryside with many shaes of green. Coming down over Holland to start the descent to UK/Heathrow we could see that shiops lined up like dozens of matchsticks to come into a harbour ...Rotterdam?... and those ships which were leaving trailing small feathers of white behind them.
At Heathrow we had the usual queue to get through immigration (but NO customs) and then a "Love Actually" moment when Jared and Jo were there to meet us. They were very complimentary about our light luggage situation ..which they could have been because they knew we had Marmite, milo, pineapple lumps and gingernuts (as requested) in there! We went by tube to their place in Clapham which is just across the road from the station (tho interestingly you can't hear the trains at all). They have a flat in a 60's, styled-up (magnolia/pearl lustre), privately-owned, ex-council block which is gated and well maintained - think lawns, roses, dappled trees - and they have a real fox! Waking in the night I heard a rook - London!
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