Thursday Picked up the hire car today, we went to a dingy office with 2 russian guys who filled out the paperwork, then a third russian, a "colleague", who was waiting around the corner with the motor running, took us to pick up the car. We went through this seedy looking run down industrial area, narrow laneways and then under a bridge where there were hundreds of cars in the semi darkness. Another "colleague" showed us the car, we had to change it because the cigarette lighter didn't work in the first, we needed it for the TomTom. Added 3/4 tank of fuel at the local service station, $100 later, (fuel is about $2.50/litre). We headed off through inner London, blindly following the TomTom directions, it worked beautifully, we'd have been lost without it, literally.
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