Work and fog in London

Last week, my work took me for three days to London, from Wednesday to Friday. I always love this part of my work and, needless to say, I decided to stay for the weekend as well. However, my stay did not have a happy beginning, since my plane was delayed two hours, due to a strike of air controllers in France and to the snow storm in London. It is quite interesting to check how snow can collapse a country that should be used to it, as Great Britain.

The first days were devoted to work and there is not much to write. However, I would like to mention the amazing room and rates I got at NH Harrington Halls and the stupidly expensive dinner at Oxo Tower (especially when compared with food quality). In the latter case, it seems we must blame the wine we ordered (although I do not drink wine). When working in London, I feel so great that it is almost a pleasure. It would be a complete pleasure if the tube were not so crowded and the tickets were a bit cheaper, but, on the other hand, I feel that then London will not be London.On Saturday, I decided to go to Stonehenge. It is quite difficult to arrive there on your own, so I just joint a guided tour which only consisted of taking us there by bus and give each one of us an audio guide; not quite a guided tour in the whole sense of the expression. Weather conditions did not help that day (it was raining and quite foggy), but in any case you cannot help feeling stupid in front of those huge stones placed, some thousands of years ago, in three concentric circles for unknown reasons on top of one of the thousands hills in England. First question which arrived to my mind was how?, and immediately after the important one came: why?Anyway, although you cannot spend much time there (after all, it is just a group of stones of a hill, as simple as it sounds), I think it is worth a visit.

What else did I do in London? Well, on Saturday evening, I met my friend Maciej and his wife for dinner, in a cute Chinese restaurant called Ping Pong, close to Waterloo. Then, on Sunday morning it was sunny, so I decided to go for a walk to Hyde Park, watching also the Prince Albert Memorial, the Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum and some buildings of the Imperial College. Sounds good, doesn't it? I must admit that this part of London (South Kensington) is my favourite one, I would not mind at all living there.

Afterwards, I had delicious lunch and chat with Jen. Finally, Iberia (or the fog in Madrid or our air controllers) decided that I had to wait three hours in Heathrow to return home and that is what I did.