Day 2

All flights were canceled for today, but we knew that yesterday. We checked out of our hotel out in the burbs with an eye to being close to the train at Paddington. Everything was filling up fast for the weekend, but we used Priceline to latch on to anything in the area we could afford. Anything.

The only thing we could find was the lowly Hempel – a small 5 star north of the park. After a week at the Barn Hotel in Ruislip where the hot water didn’t work and you had to heat water to shave with in the kettle, where the walls were so thin that the guy snoring next door could be heard with the window’s closed, and where cute fuzzy mice frequented the lobby after the bar closed, the Hempel was going to be an unfortunate step down. The staff was quite pleasant when we checked in, though you could see they kind of looked down at us – at all of us refugees that were checking in.

I checked flights tonight – the first Saturday flight is already canceled. That means the first Sunday flight back is as well.

Still no particulate.