Bus hopping in London: news from Londradical...


From: Londradical
To: Miss Welby
Sent: 24 May 2008
Subject: bus hopping

My beloved Miss Welby, today I had a nice "bus-hopping" Saturday. In order to exploit my bus pass, I was randomly getting on the first bus... passing by. The 266 took me to Hammersmith. There the 220 took me to Putney and Wandsworth, where I had never been before, then the 28 took me to Notting Hill Gate and there the 31 took me to Camden. There I had breakfast and found out that there is a waterbus on Regent Canal, which I didn't know about. However I opted to walk 4 km along the canal to the Zoo and Little Venice, where I had a pint and walked again down to Paddington towards Kensington Gardens, where I got on the 148 to Shepherd's Bush. I cannot imagine naming a place, and an underground station, "campo del cespuglio del pastore". Never mind, I got on the 207 all the way up to Uxbridge. I was not impressed by Uxbridge, but I had another pint, therefore on my way back I needed the toilet badly. The bus driver apologised for being his first trip when he took the wrong way towards Greenford. I don't see how can you take the wrong way on that route, as all you have to do is going straight on Uxbridge road, but perhaps he had a pint... One hour later I jumped off the bus in Acton and rushed to Morrison's toilets.