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Published: October 2nd 2017
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We're off to London today - for a 6-day stay and the last leg of our journey.
On the way we stopped at Avebury, a village enclosed by the largest prehistoric stone circle in Britain. Avebury dates to 2800 BC, 6 centuries older and 16 times as large as Stonehenge. Britain is home to over 800 stone circles.
Unique to Avebury is a long processional avenue leading 1 1/2 miles with a double line of stones.
After spending an hour or so walking around we headed to Heathrow Airport on the Motorway. This was the most convenient place to drop off our rental car, and - thankfully - we got a "no damage" report when we turned it in. We say thankfully because with all those narrow roads, some just one way, with no shoulder or right of way, hedges growing up right to the edge of the road, it was a miracle there wasn't a scratch. We had been warned that if we didn't buy their extra insurance (20 pounds per day) and got even so much as a scratch on the car we'd have to pay 700 pounds. Extortion! But we didn't buy.
Got on the tube and
made our way to our next and last Airbnb stay. We got to the transfer point on our last leg to the house - and the whole line was closed down for the weekend with a notice "use alternate line" as if we knew exactly how to do that. So we figured out how to get to the nearest station not on that line, but no one (including the station personnel) seemed to have a clue how we could get where we wanted to go, not even our host, who we frantically called. We finally figured out that they were running a "replacement bus" to our closed station, got on that and made it at last to the house. I have an app on my phone that's a map of the London underground and will route you where you want to go. Interestingly it will work on my phone even though I can't get service here.
Gary is our host. An older quite proper English gentleman. We're again on the 3rd floor 😞 but it's a nice room, with an attached bathroom (or as they say here, "en suite"😉 and - yay! - a desk. I don't have to scrunch up
on the bed typing this.
Went out to eat but all we could find was a "PFC" (something Fried Chicken) and a Chinese takeout run by a guy from India. We got Chicken with vegetables (sounded safe) with a brown sauce that had curry in it, along with these really strange white disks that I guess are some kind of rice chips. They taste like starch and melt in your mouth like cotton candy. Tomorrow we'll hit the grocery store.
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