It was nice to sleep in the first day after the tour….and when we finally left the hotel after breakfast, we realised that we should probably have just stayed in bed.

The weather was atrocious. Rain was falling in buckets. We walked up to London Bridge station, party to determine where we needed to go to get to the international airport the following day but we had thought we might go over the Thames and walk around the Tower of London. We changed our minds as our umbrella got blown inside out, and my shoes filled with water. Coffee was the first stop of the day, then the Horniman at Hay bar. We thought the name of that bar was pretty interesting and warranted a photo stop. I didn't object to the stop as with wet feet, and damp pants and t-shirt I was frozen to the bone. The rain didn't relent, so we wandered back to the hotel and sorted out that bag and got dressed to head to the Jersey Boy show at the Piccadilly Theatre.

The trains are so impressive here. We jumped on at Southwark Station, rode to the first stop on the Jubilee Line and then changed onto the Bakerloo line and 3 stop was Piccadilly and the theatre was less than 200 m from the station.

The show was brilliant ( I can't say the same about our dinner). The guy who played Franki Valli was amazing and sounded just like the original. Great story.! Coming out of the theatre was a bombardment to the senses. It felt like Times Square. Lights and big screens everywhere and millions of people all coming out of the various shows at the same time, wandering like possums into the lights in the square. Music playing, a bag pipe player on the traffic island, a homeless guy playing a road cone (he was pretty good actually) and fire engines roaring by. It was hard to focus on anything in particular

With so many people swarming into the rail station I was amazed that from leaving the theatre to unlocking our room at the hotel that it had only taken around 20 minutes. Fantastic movement of so many people

The next morning the train system impressed us once again. We had to get to the St Pancreas International train station. A short walk ( no rain) to the London Bridge terminal, onto the Northern line train and 3 stops along we were in the Kings Cross St Pancreas Terminal, a short walk and we were queuing for customs and waiting our train to Amsterdam.

Now here I am in a comfortable train just offloading some passengers in Little Europe, the first stop in Europe (Calais) and only 1 hour to go to Brussels where do our first international train transfer