Day 1 - 15th June, 2002
Got a window seat on the flight. Comfy journey. Slept most of it and watched some obscure stuff they were showing + A Beautiful Mind...seen it before but it's a lovely movie. On landing in London's Heathrow Airport I expected the people who I was going to be staying with to pick me up but since they weren't there and since I had told them that I would come by myself on the Tube(I yet expected them to come fetch me..how lazy of me!) Hehe! Anyway, I followed the signs to the underground staion and ended up buying a £12.00 ticket on the Heathrow Expres ticket to Picadilly. This was extravagant as I realised later that it would have costed me only £3.40 totally to reach Ilford but I didn't know my way around and ended up buying the Express ticket. At Picadilly I had to buy another ticket for my onward journey to Redbridge from Picadilly and ended up going to the outstation trains Advance and current ticket booking counters and in doing so I ended up getting quite a bruise on my hand lugging my heavy suitcase around. After finally finding the Underground ticket machines I took one train to Bakerloo and then changed there for the Central line to take me to Redbridge. I had to go down escalators to the other platform and my suitcase almost slipped and hit a small girl, I was so scared that I had hurt her or her mother would make a scene...but, luckily they were Asian(people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc... are collectively know as Asian in UK) and she just smiled at me and said it's OK. Thank God for small mercies. I finally reached Redbridge and Jyoti and Laxmi came to pick me up. The whole journey from the Airport had taken me almost two hours when it should have taken only an hour. It was nice seeing them after so long. We went ot visit Bapuji in some hospital in Harrow that day and then went out for Dinner. Drpped off to sleep the moment we reached home and slept till 12 pm the next day.
posted by elusion @ 8/03/2002 06:48:00 AM,
