We should have left at ten minutes to midnight (technically yesterday), but as we are queuing at the gate we see the pilots and cabin crew leaving the plane - not a good omen. We ask the pilot as he passes: no, it's all right - we will go but they're checking out a water leak. If they can't fix it we'll go on a different plane. Meanwhile the crew is off for coffee.
So shortly after 2 a.m. we are underway on the new unleaky airplane. Dinner at 3 a.m. - or 8 a.m. GMT if you prefer. Which puts us at the hotel about 3 p.m. GMT. It's just off Queensway in Bayswater. Fairly basic, but the ceiling is over twelve feet high and gorgeous (Victorian?) with an elaborate plaster braid around what is clearly the original perimeter. There's more plaster decoration around the ceiling light fixture, and an oval mirror over the sink and a second one in the door of the old wooden wardrobe. Sink in one corner and loo in another are much later additions.
Not doing our own cooking this time, so over to Queensway to explore local options. Humming as always and some OK choices at fast foods as well as a fairly good Tesco and some Lebanese and Asian spots. Also the full size Marks and Spencer in the four storey "mall" made out of the classic old Whiteley's Department Store - 19th century and still with traces of its original grandeur.
So shortly after 2 a.m. we are underway on the new unleaky airplane. Dinner at 3 a.m. - or 8 a.m. GMT if you prefer. Which puts us at the hotel about 3 p.m. GMT. It's just off Queensway in Bayswater. Fairly basic, but the ceiling is over twelve feet high and gorgeous (Victorian?) with an elaborate plaster braid around what is clearly the original perimeter. There's more plaster decoration around the ceiling light fixture, and an oval mirror over the sink and a second one in the door of the old wooden wardrobe. Sink in one corner and loo in another are much later additions.
Not doing our own cooking this time, so over to Queensway to explore local options. Humming as always and some OK choices at fast foods as well as a fairly good Tesco and some Lebanese and Asian spots. Also the full size Marks and Spencer in the four storey "mall" made out of the classic old Whiteley's Department Store - 19th century and still with traces of its original grandeur.
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