Transistion

Yesterday was a bittersweet day for us.  Yesterday was our last day in Greenwich.  We have packed everything up, moved our stuff to our friends Robin and Ruth’s house in Wembley and turned in our keys.  For three months, we have come and gone from our flat and we were starting to feel like it was “home”.  Countless trips in and out of the Greenwich train station traveling off to various far-flung corners of London and beyond.  But now it is over.  As we were leaving, we each had a little tear in our eye.  It felt like we were moving homes; and, I suppose we were.

But London isn’t giving us up without a fight!  As we pack our backpacks and repack our other stuff for temporary storage, London isn’t making it easy for us to leave.  Along with Easter, Friday and Monday are bank holidays and it is the end of term for most schools.  Lots of things are closed and the Metro has decided that this weekend would be a good time to work on the two lines that service Wembley.  That means no trains to Robin and Ruth’s house.  The one line (Jubilee) gets within 5 stations of Wembley but the rest of the way, we have to transfer to busses.  Yesterday, we needed to make two trips to Wembley and it took us 5-1/2 hours!

It’s also been quite cold in London (still!) and, apparently, quite cold and wet at the beginning point of our Camino.  Hmmm…  Oh well, too late to back out now!  This has been the coldest March in London for the past 60 years.  This morning, it was -5^oC (23^oF).  I guess London wanted to toughen us up!

We also weren’t quite done with London, today.  We had the pleasure of celebrating Easter in Westminster Abbey.  What a glorious experience, even if we didn’t get there in time to sit in the quire.  We were also able to scope out an alternate route to the train station for tomorrow.  We’ll have to walk a little farther but we can get to a tube line that is actually running.  Even at that, we will be walking out of the house at 7:30 a.m.  It ought to be “crisp”.

And so, today we close one wonderful chapter of our adventure and open another tomorrow.  We are excited and a little anxious but we think that we are ready!  It will be a little more challenging to post updates but we will whenever we can.  See you later!