Squeezing the London Pass

[kevin_standlee]

Still no energy for a full-blown trip report. If you want photos of those things I did photograph, look at my London Flickr Album and read the captions.

• Canal Board Trip from Little Venice to Camden Town


• Lunch at Camden Lock Market


• Tube through Mornington Crescent, then Euston


• London Canal Museum


• Tube to London Bridge


• Old Operating Theatre museum


• Second Lunch in Borough Market


• Tower Bridge Experience; as a bonus, the bridge opened while we were on the walkway above


• City Tours boat ride, which actually will be good into late-afternoon tomorrow for hop on/hop off use


• Dinner near Piccadilly Circus


• A bit of a detour back out to Docklands on the DLR, then back on the Jubilee Line

I haven't yet done the numbers, but I think the London Pass was at least a break-even, if you exclude the foolishness of the Zone 1-6 Travelcard. And it did give us an incentive to visit several small museums that we wouldn't have otherwise visited. However, trying to make good value out of that card is serious work, and I'm exhausted after more than 23,000 steps on the pedometer today.

There was a partial Tube workers strike today, shutting down service on the Central and Waterloo & City lines. I haven't found out yet whether it was a one-day strike or continuous. If the latter, we'll have to cancel our plan to go to the Epping-Ongar heritage railway; our plan was to make something of that Travel card and ride the Central out to Epping and then the heritage bus service to the steam railway and spend part of the day out there. I'll know more in the morning.

Comments

[timill]

Googling suggests you should be OK. If not, there's the Bluebell or the Kent & East Sussex.

Or even the North Norfolk, for which I have a shareholder's pass. Not that I expect it to be any good these days; they've probably restructured the ownership since I bought the shares.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Transit Workers don't usually strike on weekends - unless it's a major holiday, and that's next weekend, or the one after that. I forget.

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

The strike would have impacted our plans on Friday, had Tara's ear and throat hadn't decided to react badly to the smoke and position of the A/C in our basement closet - err hotel room.

The original plans had been to go take the Bakerloo from Lambeth North (across the street from our hotel) to Waterloo, change to the Waterloo & City, then to the Central Line to St. Paul's.

Once Tara wasn't able to go with me, I became the limiting factor in how far we could walk. This let me change to the Jubilee line at Waterloo (which couldn't really require a walk as far as from our hotel to the same Jubilee line platform), and go to Westminster Abby first. (This put me in place to see Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman at a promotional appearance for Doctor Who.).