Yesterday I had to pop up to London on business, taking Mrs W with me.
An easy drive up in the morning, park in Richmond and get a day rover for the tube, avoiding high car parking charges, congestion charges and god knows what other charges.
Tube to Olympia, business concluded by late lunch so hopped on and off tubes for quick wander round Picadilly, Oxford Street, Soho, St James Park, and Whitehall, jump on another tube back to Richmond, grab a coffee and head home about 19.15
Couldn't be easier.
Until we hit a queue on the M3 just south of the M25 junction at about 19.40pm.
A queue which we soon realised was stationery. Soon the sky got darker and the temperature plummeted
A queue which remained stationery until 22.30 when it moved all of 100 yards before stopping again.
A queue which then remained stationery again until 23.07 when out of the blue, and interrupting the 78th game of I-spy - how I didn't guess v was for van again I'll never know - it started to crawl.
A queue which slowly crawled until 23.30 when suddenly we were past the obstruction (apparently a vehicle fire and diesel spill) and we were on our way. Except we didn't go too far, a stop a Fleet Services was by now a desperate necessity.
We finally arrived home at 00.45.
5 1/2 hours for a journey that normally takes 75 minutes. We could have cycled home quicker !
An easy drive up in the morning, park in Richmond and get a day rover for the tube, avoiding high car parking charges, congestion charges and god knows what other charges.
Tube to Olympia, business concluded by late lunch so hopped on and off tubes for quick wander round Picadilly, Oxford Street, Soho, St James Park, and Whitehall, jump on another tube back to Richmond, grab a coffee and head home about 19.15
Couldn't be easier.
Until we hit a queue on the M3 just south of the M25 junction at about 19.40pm.
A queue which we soon realised was stationery. Soon the sky got darker and the temperature plummeted
A queue which remained stationery until 22.30 when it moved all of 100 yards before stopping again.
A queue which then remained stationery again until 23.07 when out of the blue, and interrupting the 78th game of I-spy - how I didn't guess v was for van again I'll never know - it started to crawl.
A queue which slowly crawled until 23.30 when suddenly we were past the obstruction (apparently a vehicle fire and diesel spill) and we were on our way. Except we didn't go too far, a stop a Fleet Services was by now a desperate necessity.
We finally arrived home at 00.45.
5 1/2 hours for a journey that normally takes 75 minutes. We could have cycled home quicker !
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