RIP David Bowie!

[Icey]

Well you've been to France, Spain, Israel ....... how on earth did you manage to pull yourself out of your comfort zone??

[tomsk]

I was young and foolish!
I've been to Greece too, through the former Yogislavia! Yugoslavia even...Austria, Germany, Italy on a ramshackle coach...
My favourite place is Lourdes in Toulouse!

[Icey]

Well, because you've done a bit of travelling through Europe, you obviously aren't averse to getting out and about, so why do you say you're timid about it?

[tomsk]

London underground flummoxes me!

[Icey]

It's enough to flummox the bravest! Mind you, to be fair, there're signs, and staff around to help.

[tomsk]

Yes,
I'm like a tourist though..

[Icey]

Well even tourists manage, T. I think it's a case of going up to the ticket office, not a machine, and just telling them where you want to go. They'll tell you WHERE to go, and how much it is.

[tomsk]

Thanks Mum!

[Icey]

Blimey, you live right near to tube stations down there. You should be an expert by now. We don't have such things up in't country, laddie. : )

[tomsk]

I hate the hustle and bustle sometimes...
I'd go in quieter times...

[Icey]

ARE there any quieter times??

[tomsk]

Yes, when people are coming out of London after work back to suburbia.....

[Icey]

That's true I suppose.

[tomsk]

I'd hate to commute to work...yuk..

[Icey]

I don't imagine it's very pleasant, but my father did it for a good while.

[tomsk]

well he is a better man than I ..
being squashed on the tube does not appeal..

[Icey]

Nor me, but he took an ordinary train to London, and then a tube to where he worked.

[tomsk]

there is something special about getting to the heart of the City...

[Icey]

Yes - pushing and shoving to get on a tube during rush hour! LOL!