Airports etc.

[catherine at ...]

--- In HPFGU-London at y..., hamster8 at h... wrote:
> I'm in Thames Ditton when I'm at home, so I'm also very handy for 
> Hampton Court Palace *calculates in head - train to Waterloo, 
Jubilee 
> Extension to Greenwich - can do*

Second attempt at replying - last one got eaten, I think...
I spent last bank holiday Monday at Hampton Court with the 
stepkids.   They were bored - kept deliberately touching things so a 
one of the guards would tell them off (GRRRR!).
  Handy hint - do not deliberately get lost in maze, if there is any 
chance of rain.  Otherwise, what starts as a rather pleasant pastime 
can end up being quite uncomfortable and frustrating.

> What's with this north south snobbery ... I've never understood it 
> myself?
> 
> Al

It drives me mad.  We have friends in Kensington, Chelsea etc (they 
aren't fabulously rich - just ex-pats with generous housing 
allowances) who shudder at the mere suggestion of travelling 
southwards.  One family of QPR supporters came over last year when 
Charlton were in the 1st division - and moaned about the fact that 
they had to drive through Deptford and Peckham to get here.  They 
felt "threatened" and had to keep the doors of the car locked.  
Honestly!  

It 's also a lack of tube thing.  North Londoners, in my experience, 
are very wary of going anywhere which isn't on the tube line.  
Overland trains are therefore an alien concept to them.  Yet they 
expect us to go and visit them at the drop of a hat.

Oh well, this is site for arrangements, not rants.  Sorry everyone!

Catherine