Another leisurely breakfast before packing all of our belongings and checking out, then off to Paddington Station - a leisurely five minute walk away. We boarded the Plymouth train, then changed at Reading for the train to Southampton Central. The trains are sooooo good!! Expensive but wonderful. The Novotel at Southampton is just across the road from the station - very handy. Our room however, is not lovely - it's quite hot and the airconditioning doesn't wo...

This morning we had a leisurely breakfast, then caught the train 1 station to Warwick Avenue (which we'd discovered just the other night), where we walked down to Little Venice. In this large pond area we found the canal longboat for "Jason's Trip" down to the Camden Locks. We didn't realise the canal were still such a going concern in London - many of the boats were residential, as well as holiday ones. We then walked through Camden Markets to Chalk Farm statio...

After a speedy breakfast we went down to Paddington station and caught the train to Bath. The train was very quiet and smooth, and our carriage was quiet as we were travelling in a designated "quiet carriage" - no mobile phones, no babies, just harmonious peace. Within 20 minutes we were in the picturesque countryside. Our train line passed through a tunnel engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1841 as part of the Great Western Railway. The tunnel i...

Started the morning by doing a load of washing and setting it out to dry in the bathroom. The tubes were back to normal this morning and we arrived at Victoria Station to find our waiting room for the Orient Express already open, offering refreshments and comfort. Of course the weather is still unseasonally warm - according to the weather records we should've been expecting a temperature around 8 degrees celsius, but instead, we have been having temperatures 10...

Well - what a day!!! The tubes were hit with a strike - some lines closed, some stations closed. We had to skip our Abbey Road visit (have to catch it next time!!). Brekky didn't start till 8.30am, so it was a later start than planned. We managed to travel to the next station, then change lines to get us to Westminster. We found our Thames River Cruise there, but their services were shot to pieces because there was an abnormally high tide, making going under brid...