Friday, June 9, 2000
The Plan:
Edinburgh
-> Kings Cross 4:30
(every 1/2 hour)
Edinburgh
London Kings Cross 0 9.06.00
9:00 - 13:36 = 4:36
Edinburgh
London Kings Cross 0 9.06.00
9:30 - 13:50 = 4:20
Edinburgh
London Kings Cross 0 9.06.00 10:00
- 14:42 = 4:42
Lunch at
6 Bedford St., Covent Garden 0171-379-0585
Charing Cross -> Canterbury 1:30
Charing Cross
Canterbury West 1 9.06.00 15:00 -
16:37
= 1:37
Charing Cross
Canterbury West 1 9.06.00 15:30 -
17:13
= 1:43
Charing Cross
Canterbury West 1 9.06.00 16:00 -
17:41
= 1:41
Charing Cross
Canterbury West 1 9.06.00 16:30 -
18:06
= 1:36
or
Victoria Canterbury
East 1
9.06.00
14:35 - 15:59 = 1:24
Victoria
Canterbury
East 1
9.06.00
15:05 - 16:29 = 1:24
Victoria
Canterbury
East 1
9.06.00
15:35 - 17:01 = 1:26
three nights in Canterbury
Magnolia
House, 36 St Dunstan's Terrace 01227 765121 3 nights, 1 room
Methven's Internet Café
28 High Street,
Canterbury,
Kent CT1 2AZ England 01227 478600 9-9 9-7 11-5
Reality:
Sunny
0700 Wake up
0800 Breakfast: musli, special k, corn flakes, egg, bacon, OJ
0900 taxi to Edinburgh Waverley
0930 (32)Edinburgh Waverley -> London Kings Cross 1350
1013 pass Berwick on Tweed
1101 pass Newcastle on Tyne
1110 pass Durham Cathedral
1350 queue for taxi under roof in drizzle
1405 taxi to covent garden
1408 TGIFridays: ribs, fries, lemonade

1505 walk to Charing Cross station
1510 board 1530
1530 (33)London Charing Cross -> Canterbury West 1713
1535 see London Eye from train from bridge
1713 arrive Canterbury
in rain, walk to Magnolia House
1725 arrive Magnolia
House, greeted with "You must be from New Hampshire"
1847 (34)Canterbury West -> Wye 1902
1903 call Jo from station, get her mother instead, get Jo's number
1905 call Jo from station, she'll meet us at The Tickled Trout
1915 dinner at The Tickled Trout: lamb shoulder, fries, grapefruit
juice, oj + lemonade, strawberries + ice cream
2158 (35)Wye -> Canterbury West 2213
2213 return to room