{"id":103,"date":"2016-06-01T19:28:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:03:35","slug":"june-1-arrival-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/06\/01\/june-1-arrival-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"June 1: Arrival in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

After weeks of agonizing about how to pack for a 50-day trip involving plane, train, bus, rental car, and cruise travel, we have finally arrived in London. We are staying in a small hotel near King\u2019s Cross and St. Pancras station.<\/p>\n

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Crestfield Hotel, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today’s trip went amazingly well. Despite dire predictions about long delays at TSA security, we breezed through without a line. \u00a0The British Airways flight was smooth, and we even arrived a bit early. \u00a0Good thing, though, because it took quite a bit of time to get through customs. There were both European and non-European lines. Arjan’s line was much longer, but he got through much faster. My line got stalled until they called in extra help and increased the open lines from four to about a dozen.<\/p>\n

The new Heathrow Terminal 5 is really beautiful, and we had no trouble taking the Underground to get to central London.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have jet lag, thanks to a daytime flight, but we are both very tired from a poor night\u2019s sleep anticipating our trip. \u00a0Now that we are here, can we relax yet?<\/p>\n

Photograph \u00a9 2016 P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After weeks of agonizing about how to pack for a 50-day trip involving plane, train, bus, rental car, and cruise travel, we have finally arrived in London. We are staying in a small hotel near King\u2019s Cross and St. Pancras station. Today’s trip went amazingly well. Despite dire predictions about long delays at TSA security, … Continue reading “June 1: Arrival in London”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}