Thu 2 Jun 2005
So Chris made it sound like I didn’t know what I was doing in London. To be fair I haven’t been there in five years and getting lost in foreign cities is my MO. You want to tour going from A to B in a straight line, hire a tour company. You want to see a city in five hours packing in everything from the tourist hot spots to the local dives, follow me. I got lost around Maida Vale mainly because there are little to no landmarks to orient one’s self. Not being there for five years Wymering Road hit a nerve so I assumed it was the street I used to live on. After feeling like it changed quite a bit I then walked down a block and realized I had lived on Widley Road and that Wymering struck the nerve because I used to love the name and would always use it as a marker to tell me I was getting close to my flat.
All in all I got us back to Paddington train station right on time and was able to see more of the thing I had remembered from when I lived there just by wandering with no real goal. The only thing I did not get to see because we got to London so late was the Warrington Hotel. That was a bit disappointing because it was the bar I hung out in the most. Oh well, next time.
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