Leaving London

Well, what a time to get a mild flu. I've been either sleeping or forcing myself to get out and about. Haven't even been on the internet much (either asleep or out) but had to start planning the rest of my UK travels as my time is up here in London on the morrow.

So last night - and a lot of today - has been spent poring over maps, books, accommodation lists, and sending a lot of emails. I've booked in to a hostel in Salisbury for tomorrow night and hope in the meantime to get some emails from Servas hosts agreeing to have me. I have a kind of itinerary now, but that will be quite rubbery depending on accommodation options. I think I might be sleeping in the car a few times given the difficulty I've had already trying to secure a Servas host or hostel. One Servas host replied to say she has travellers booked in with her every weekend in July and until mid-August ... may have missed my boat, eh?

Speaking of transport - he he - I did get a good deal on the train fare to Garwick Airport where I pick up the hire car. The express train cost nearly 18GBP ($27 Aus), the ordinary train about 12GBP ($18 Aus), but by booking online and a few days before I had to go, it cost only 5.55GBP ($8 Aus).

Looking forward to having a car and not needing to lug my bags around or hunt for schedules and fares again, until the day I hand in that car and get a train from Gatwick Airport to Heathrow Airport on 31 August. YAY!

Anyhoo, I have to get off the internet shortly and start packing up as I have to leave here quite early (for me!) and pick up the hire car. And it is already 10pm.

I'm feeling quite knackered as I barely slept last night and when I did eventually nod off after 4am I had to make myself wake up at 5am from a terrible nightmare. Think it was the worst nightmare I have ever had and it was soooooooo real. Didn't really want to sleep again after that in case I had another one, but I did nod off again for about another hour. It was horrible enough to make one want to stay safely at home in bed, forever and ever, and with a blankie pulled up over one's head ...

Going now and will update more info when I can.