Hmmm, Adventure. Yes and no.

I arrived in London at 11pm, and proceeded very quickly through the terminal to a dead standstill of 1.5 hours in a border control line.

Then just as I'm getting a cab to my AirBNB, the full force of Hurricane Florence swoops in, only factor in cold from the north Atlantic... and so I'm enjoying this hurricane yet again. Meet the new storm, same as the old storm...

My AirBNB was a little difficult to find... both the cabbie and I were hopping out of the car several times, running up to the door to look for the house number and the electronic entry system as described. Finally we found it and after mastering the entry to fall into the foyer I was drenched to the bones...

Only to be greeted by an almost vertical set of stairs and a room that really, no really!, doesn't look like the pictures from AirBNB..... But, it was clean and warm... and had a bed and a toilet.... and so at 3-ish London time I fell into bed.

Only to hop back up immediately to find myself a different AirBNB for the next two nights......

I set an early alarm and learned that the new AirBNB would let me leave my bags for the day before my checkin... so I fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head, found my way downstairs (almost fell down the 12-inch wide vertical stairs with my overweight luggage!) and in the cold sunshiny morning over to the tobacconist next door to ask for a taxi.

Driver was GREAT! From India, been in UK 30 years... lives in this little village near Heathrow, very interesting, telling me about the area, showing me the Walmart that's not named Walmart. And he knew EXACTLY where my next hotel was. So I popped in, dropped my bags in the Luggage Room, got an underground map, hit the ATM, and headed out to explore London!