It is drizzling outside, the time is 7:30 am and yet it is dark. A very bad time waking up and getting ready for the office. Have an umbrella, brisk walk to the nearest bus stop and took 101 to East Ham tube station, take district line tube going westwards. They are crowded as our electric trains in Chennai (not as much as Mumbai).The tubes accommodate more than ours as the number of seats are less.
People are the same; I mean what they do, what they talk. They will be reading books or newspapers, or staring at the beautiful girl standing near the door, or gossip about their boss, or simply looking to the top to say I am a gentleman.
Got down at West Ham to shift to the Jubilee lines, up the escalator following directions to the platform for Jubilee lines going westwards. In the escalator, if you want to just stand and let the escalator do its job, stand on the right side giving way to the smarties who are in a hurry. My journey ends in Canary Wharf - you can call it local Wall Street ? Hopefully yes. With big brokers like Morgan Stanley having two huge buildings and a bridge connecting the two, to a small guy with an office next to the hair saloon....
This is a usual morning for me in London. I landed here on Sunday evening and the city accepted me immediately. If you don't know multiplication by 80 you will do great. Still the rent in the central town seems too costly. I stayed in a hotel in Victoria (200 meters from Buckingham Palace) with £40 per day! That too it is not attached! Food is cheap here compared to that, again you will faint of you multiply it by 80.
I will start with another set of weekenders, may be, if I get the luxury of time.
However, for now it is just an Introduction.
