{"id":4367,"date":"2017-07-13T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T06:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2017-07-14T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T18:05:53","slug":"sea-to-swakopmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"SEA to Swakopmund"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Leslie, Val and grandson Liam (almost 14 \u00a0years old) left Seattle in the \u00a0early evening, and 8 hours later it was afternoon in London. We had a 9 hour layover which gave us enough time to ‘do’ London! We took the fast (i.e. expensive) train to Paddington and then the tube to Trafalgar Square. We stood far below the feet of Admiral Nelson and gazed at the epic scale of English architecture. We wandered the narrow streets, and marveled at an English construction worker with huge arms lifting 5 meter-long iron pipes straight up until he had the bottom in one hand and then he inserted the end of this pipe into the top of a previous pipe as he constructed a 4 story high\"\"<\/a> scaffolding. Two fun hours were spent at Covent Garden watching the crazy street performers and wandering in a flowery installation that we found inside the world’s fanciest ladies’ shoe shop. We found the numerous Londoners we spoke with so friendly and helpful.<\/div>\n
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