Been to London to visit....

No not the Queen but the Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. I found it quite an amazing place and it was certainly like the pictures on the website.
I don't think I would like to travel on the tube very often - I found it very claustrophobic.
There were major problems coming back as there had been a fatality at Lichfield and someone had been hit by a train at Tipton - please pray for all those involved in these accidents.

Impressed by London

In my previous post I mentioned that I had been in London on Tuesday on a course. The building i was in was on the Strand and the room we were in overlooked the Strand and as I was sitting near the window I was able to observe the traffic and the comings and goings to some extent. It struck me that London is a very busy place with lots of comings and goings - lots of sirens (police cars)and lots of noise.
What did impress me was that at 11a.m. everything seemed to stop and an almost eerie silence descended as London observed the two minutes silence - I did make the observation at lunchtime that you could have heard a pin drop and for somewhere as busy and noisy as London this must be quite unusual.
So I say well done London for coming to a halt for those two minutes to remember the fallen not just of World War 1 but of all conflicts.