Away in the UK
We're back in Tokyo now, but for the past week and a half we were in London, Suffolk, York, and Edinburgh. Oh yeah, we were also in a rental car in between those locations.
Beginning with the rental car: After a few short days in London we went over to Russell Square to pick up our Volvo. "The previous renter didn't return it," said the woman there. She was nice, though, and made some calls and got us a larger car (a Ford Galaxy or somesuch) that she rented to us for the same amount, even knocking off the extra driver charge by way of apology for our wait that morning. Nice! This almost made up for the rental office's refusal to find any way to send me the garment bag that got left in its back room after a Hertz employee placed it apart from the other luggage we left in there while we went to drink coffee and wait for the Ford to arrive.
I think the suit is still there. We've got a friend working on getting it back, but the Hertz people seem quite convinced that there's absolutely no way whatsoever to get it sent elsewhere in England. A nation without COD shipping. Imagine that. Stupid inflexible blargh.
Anyway. This photo is of a carving on one of the pillars supporting the vaulted ceiling of the main entrance hall of London's Museum of Natural History. This was a great place to hang out for a few hours, even if those hours were exhausting ones coming at the end of 16 hours on planes and layovers. We couldn't check into our hotel and get a shower until two that afternoon. Blargh once again.
I'll be making short posts and adding photos here for a while. I uploaded a bunch of pictures (not nearly all 600 that we took while there, of course) and you can go peek at them at the Flickr site. Cheers.
Beginning with the rental car: After a few short days in London we went over to Russell Square to pick up our Volvo. "The previous renter didn't return it," said the woman there. She was nice, though, and made some calls and got us a larger car (a Ford Galaxy or somesuch) that she rented to us for the same amount, even knocking off the extra driver charge by way of apology for our wait that morning. Nice! This almost made up for the rental office's refusal to find any way to send me the garment bag that got left in its back room after a Hertz employee placed it apart from the other luggage we left in there while we went to drink coffee and wait for the Ford to arrive.
I think the suit is still there. We've got a friend working on getting it back, but the Hertz people seem quite convinced that there's absolutely no way whatsoever to get it sent elsewhere in England. A nation without COD shipping. Imagine that. Stupid inflexible blargh.
Anyway. This photo is of a carving on one of the pillars supporting the vaulted ceiling of the main entrance hall of London's Museum of Natural History. This was a great place to hang out for a few hours, even if those hours were exhausting ones coming at the end of 16 hours on planes and layovers. We couldn't check into our hotel and get a shower until two that afternoon. Blargh once again.
I'll be making short posts and adding photos here for a while. I uploaded a bunch of pictures (not nearly all 600 that we took while there, of course) and you can go peek at them at the Flickr site. Cheers.
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Looks like you are having a nice time in the UK. Enjoy those museums in London...all
that stolen treasure.
Posted by: tim | July 10, 2006 2:13 PM