It was my birthday!
Mal brought me a cup of tea in bed and I opened my presents and cards. He gave me a Kindle. I know he is fed up with keep bringing me loads of paperbacks back with him! A really good present, it will make my luggage allowance go further too. He also put some new books on it for me.
Last years birthday Lou and Rhys gave me a Red Letter day, a Thames lunch cruise and a trip on the London Eye. It has taken all this time to book it because every time I was in the country the places had already been taken. Finally Mal complained and they gave us priority booking and it just so happened I managed to get it on this years birthday.
We went to London by train, down to the Embankment and boarded for our lunchtime cruise. I don’t want to sound un patriotic but it doesn’t compare to the trip down the Bosphorous! However the cruise was good and we both enjoyed it and lunch. We were then given the tickets for the Eye and the boat dropped us off. We were just about to queue up when we realised the Eye wasn’t moving. It had broken down! At least I was glad that we hadn’t arrived a bit earlier and were stuck at the top.
We were told to queue up and they would give us a refund. We queued for an hour only for them to tell us as we hadn’t bought the tickets from them we had to go back to the boat people and ask them for the refund. I still wasn’t feeling well and having spoken to Rhys, he now had ‘the bug’ and a sore throat. We crossed the Thames and back to the boat people. No they couldn’t give us a refund as it was booked through Red Letter days! By this time we were getting really fed up. London is not my favourite place, so we went and had a drink, followed by Covent garden and then on to China Town and then the train back home.
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Thought for the Day – “We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. ” ~ Lauren Hutton