20 April 2010
We would be travelling to London from Liverpool by train which I had pre-booked via Internet before our trip.
Boarding 15 minutes before scheduled departure time of 12.48 PM.
We managed to get 4 seats that faced each other and a table-top in between. The journey took 2.5 hours and was comfortable. Cost us 11 GBP each. This was better than driving which would take us at least 5 hours. And we did not need a car in London.
The journey was uneventful and we arrived in London as scheduled.
Guess who we saw coming off the train?
The Liverpool football team! They were on the same train as us!
If only we had knew earlier. We might have gotten some autographs. It seemed that the train had made a special stop at a small station just outside Liverpool for the team to board. The team was on their way to Europe for a match and all flights were cancelled due to the Icelandic volcano eruption. So they had to go by ground transportation.
Cameras clicked away as the team disembarked.
A smiling Pepe Reina disembarking from the train.
Daniel Agger.
Dirk Kuyt.
Captain Steven Gerald was last to disembark from the train. A small cheer went out but he quickly moved to join the team who had immediately boarded the team bus.
We bought 4 Oyster cards and took a taxi to our apartment in London where we would be staying for the next 4 nights. We had booked ourselves a two-bedroom, one-bathroom self-catering apartment at Crompton Court Apartments located in Wood Green, north London. Nicely furnished apartment, within walking distance to the Wood Green Underground station.
We explored the vicinity of our apartment after check-in and took a walk to the nearby Alexandra Palace and Park.
Nice facade of Alexandra Palace, near Wood Green where we stayed.
Details on facade of Alexandra Palace.
Alexandra Park was nice and well planted. We saw some more cherry trees in bloom.
Rows of cherry trees in Alexandra Park in full bloom.
Close-up views of the cherry blossoms.
The park was on high ground and provided a good view of the neighbourhood.
We just sat on a park bench and watch people and families having fun or simply relaxing on the field.
We took a bus from the park to the town, alighting near the Wood Green Underground station. We had our dinner at a Nandos restaurant, followed by shopping for groceries for breakfast. Then a walk in the cold night back to the apartment. The apartment seemed a long way from the station when we were walking in the cold!
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