Proving I’m Not Tired of Life!
It was Samuel Johnson, who famously said, “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life!”
As there was little to do to keep me at home, I got a lift from one of the stud staff to the small station at Dullingham from where I got the local train to CAmbridge from the fast train to London.
Cambridge Train Arriving at Dullingham
For just £21.10, I bought a ticket that got me to London and allowed me to roam all over the city as far as Croydon in the South and Barking in the East. So I do have a Senior Railcard!
When I left I hadn’t too much idea about what I was going to do, but I had vague thoughts about travelling around seeing some of the sights and perhaps going to see some friends in South London.
Well, within an hour from leaving Dullingham, I was in Kings Cross, after an enjoyable journey chatting with three ladies of about my own age. The American lady opposite was at a legal Summer School in Cambridge and was intending to use the trains to explore London and places further, whilst in the city. I think she said that she’d bought a Senior Railcard in Cambridge to get the discount of a third on tickets. I hadn’t realised that the cards were available for non-UK citizens, but it seems fair and it will encourage tourists of the right type.
The Anonymous Widower 
We brought our girls to London for a full week when they were youngish, stayed in a nice hotel in Kensington, and the bill was more than for a fortnight in Spain! But we saw everything, and had a really good time – since they werent too interested in Museums, and in those days you had to pay before about 3.45, we went to them after they became free. There is a lot you can do in London with children which isnt expensive at all. I remember one day we went to Islington to the Family Record Office, and showed them how to look up the official record of their birth, which they liked, and then we left them to look up other ones, on the proviso it wasnt any friends, whilst we looked up some of our ancestors – they looked up Spice Girls and Take That I think.
The following year we did a week in Paris with them. We had thought about a week in Rome the following year but it didnt happen for some reason, and then they were too old to be interested and I had had my first accident. So it is on the list of places to go!
Comment by Liz P | July 24, 2010 |
The Family Record is no more, sadly!
Comment by AnonW | July 25, 2010 |
It has moved, not sure where too, National Archive I think. There is a great deal available online now though.
Comment by Liz P | July 25, 2010 |
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