We kind of landed twice. A plane was on our runway just seconds before we touched down, so we experienced the Boeing 777's two powerful engines on maximum thrust as we aborted our landing and did a loop around London for a second (and fortunately, successful) landing attempt.
Then we took the high speed Heathrow Express train to Paddington Station (only 15 minutes!) where we had a very short taxi ride to our hotel at Kensington Gardens.
We have lovely views from our hotel of Kensington Gardens and are seeing lots of life birds simply by looking out the windows. We'll provide more bird updates soon, as well as try to get up-to-speed on posting our day's events.
But we have lots of sights to see, and incredible birding right outside our hotel!
How odd was it riding in a taxi on the wrong side of the road?! I never was able to get used to that aspect of England!
ReplyDeleteIt was odd. Especially when you get out of the taxi on the curb side and you find yourself in traffic!
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