Wednesday - Suffolk to London

We tried to have a lazy morning since we were catching a midday train but we ended up waking up around 8am. We got dressed and packed up most of our stuff; we had to rearrange a bit since we had acquired a shopping bag in Southwold. We went downstairs to breakfast and had a nice table for two set up. We each had another full English breakfast but are finding the rich morning food weighs us down. After breakfast we went up so Bree could digest a bit and to finish packing.

We wanted to get to the train station in plenty of time so we settled the bill and headed to the train station. The station is one block over and one block up for our inn so it took all of five minutes. We had 45 minutes to sit and wait for the train by then. The train was nice because we were early enough in the route that we could get a seat and keep it the whole way to London Liverpool Street. Unfortunately by the time we got to London the train was quite full. As is usual with London trains, tubes and buses, it got hot and stuffy.

When we got off the train we both enjoyed a little fresh air before continuing on. Which was apparently just long enough for our Southwold shopping bag to call it quits. So we had to each take hold of everything we could and try to walk, less than gracefully, through the crowded turnstiles and into the crowded Liverpool station. It took a little while to find a reusable bag big enough in one of the station shops but then we headed out with renewed vigor. That is, until we tried to find our bus stop. We dutifully followed the bus station signs but couldn't find it. We restored to asking at information and the nice woman working there had a book I would give my right arm for; it listed each bus stop as a destination and had a chart to find which number would take you there from which starting point. Turns out we couldn't find our stop because it was outside of the station, down a block and across the street.

As soon as we found our stop, we were on our bus in about five minutes headed back to John Maggie's. We rolled in in the evening and even though we didn't do anything that day but travel we were exhausted. Maggie asked Mike to go to her daughter's Jo's house to help with some gardening and Bree had a chance to nap. Jo is in the States with her husband's family; Bree has actually never met Jo as she has been away and in the States every time Bree is here!

We relaxed, had a fabulous dinner by Maggie again and watched some cricket before heading to bed.