1. How the escalators at tube stations, when they are broken, look really short but in actual fact are very long. They are long and marathonesque and once you start walking up the broken escalators – careful not to totally freak out due to the stationary-ness of it all and fall over – you have to see the stationary escalator right the way through to the end and ahhh my thighs. It is never actually worth the stationary escalator hike.
2. How the shops are full of things I want when I have not the money, and full of nothing I want when I do have the money. Today was of the first variety… I want it all. Especially from Anthropologie.
3. That shops in London (esp. Oxford Circus) are actually probably best avoided throughout December. And November. And probably most of January, too. Bastard people everywhere.
4. How to buy a train ticket. Not specifically a London thing and more ‘I have forgotten how to function in a society where public transport is fairly widely used’. I am sure there weren’t quite so many (super saver day saver return off peak apart from not really off peak because peak time finishes before Network Railcard time starts and only if you do not travel on the Gatwick Express) tickets to choose from the last time I went anywhere?
Eventually I got a ticket. And it opened the tube barriers too. Hurrah!
5. How amazingly massive and big and huge and great London is. I want to live in London, I really do. (I mean, I actually don’t at all unless I can be RICH beyond my wildest dreams. But there is something about going just for the day that makes it seem like the coolest thing ever to LIVE IN LONDON.)
6. At the same time, however, I also forgot: How nice it is to return home to Brighton from London.
And, one thing I thought I forgot: where the loos were in Topshop. Apart from, I didn’t really forget this – for they have MOVED the loos in Topshop. Why did you move the loos, Topshop? It is stupid now with but 3 cubicles for all the females in the whole of your flagship enterprise. Loo-dicrous, I tell you.
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I try avoid shopping in town unless I absolutely have to. Croydon might not be as huge but at least the crowds are nowhere near as bad. And there’s more loos, even if they’re not in topshop.
Spoil sport. There’s all sorts of stationary escalator / queuing fun to be had in Central London!
what did you think about the mental new crossing thing at Oxford Circus/Regent Street? It drives me batty – everyone just collides in the middle like confused pigeons.
What a middle-aged comment – apologies.
Hmm. I didn’t cross it OR notice it, so craned was my neck towards the snow(!) that was falling from the sky at the time.
I will have to be more observant next time…..