The house sitter is in place, a gardener hired to protect all of Konnie’s hard work this year and the trans-Atlantic flight complete.  I will try to make the next 23 days more observational than “we did this and that” but as this trip is our experimental “what would it be like to live here trip,” some days it will just be a travel diary.

We arrived at Heathrow at noon on Saturday, September 4.  We love the non-stop from Denver.  Leaving later in the evening without an interim stop just makes the trip more comfortable and the transition to the new time zone, i.e. staying up for the rest of the first European day, much easier.  Our townhouse is comfortable, equipped and roomy and, most importantly, is on a dead end lane of row townhouses in a residential neighborhood resulting in a quiet environment for those who tend to have difficulty sleeping.  Not me of course!

We are close to Hyde Park, Victoria Station, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminster Cathedral, the grocery store, other key sights and, we got lucky again, a Starbucks.  Or, as the picture of a freestanding Starbuck’s kiosk on the street near Victoria Station might indicate, perhaps their habit here is even worse than in US cities so always being close to one may require no luck at all.

I have learned to label the pictures which might help one understand why I might have taken some of the less obvious ones.  Just click on the image to see a description.  For today, they are just some very obvious kind of London views.  Thanks for following us.