I'm in the Future!

I always think it's so funny when you travel and you are almost a day ahead of home. We made it to India (mom and me) yesterday and before I head for bed, thought I'd upload some pics. The times have certainly changed since I traveled (which really was just two years ago). I still think that you are cut off from the world. And frankly, if we weren't staying at my brother's it's not likely I would search out an internet cafe... but while I have internet, here are some pics from our journey so far.

Flew out Saturday night and got into London around 8:30 am. The flight was good, but I always have trouble sleeping upright. This part of the leg was on British Airway and there were three different levels of first/business class - most of which had full like beds - I was definately tempted to sneak up and snag a bed. We took the subway into town and made it to the Tate Modern, just as planned. It's a great museum - had some wonderful Barnett Newman's and a whole room of Rothko's (although dimmly lit). Saw pretty much everything although I did loose mom at one point.

We still had a little time to kill so walked across the Millenium Bridge - great view and it rained while we were in the museum, so it was that wonderful after rain, sun out and shining type of afternoon. On the other side of the Thames we were able to see St. Paul's Cathedral (which on a side note was the first place I visited when I was in London years back - they have since done an extensive and expensive cleaning - it's gone from black to white).

I had been worried about what to pack for the day trip in London as it's colder there than in India. Just did the layers and it worked out well - much warmer than back in Boston. As you can see though, we are still bundled up as it was windy.

We grabbed a bite to eat and started walking south along the Thames. Passed the Blackfriars (got to love this guy - I think the camera took off 10 pounds or more). Eventually though we ran out of steam and frankly London is expensive. Since we had run out of energy and money we headed back to Heathrow. We got there early, but amazingly it's not the best airport - no great places to sit and kill time - there was a shortage of seats for such a large airport. We flew Virgin Atlantic which had much smaller and tighter seats (con), but had tivo like tv - you could choose to watch when and pause whenever you needed (pro). Except, of the 300+ seats on the plane, it seemed like my seat had the only broken screen. So ended up snagging a spare seat farther back so all good. Again, not much sleep. The upside was that we were well fed, so my past exerience of travel sickness never once reared it's head. Landing in India went smoothly and before you knew it we were hugging my brother in the lobby of the airport Monday morning. Before I end this post, I just want to remember that I do not do two red eye flights back to back well - in other words, don't do it again. Even though time might dull the memory, it is recorded here that paying a little more for a direct flight is well worth the money!