Leaving London

Today we said goodbye to lovely 322 South Lambeth Road at Stockwell. We were sad to leave this home away from home. For the last time we caught the tube at Stockwell on the Northern line that took us straight through to St Pancras where we would pick up our rental car. Everything went smoothly, aided by the lovely Giselle from Enterprise Car Rentals. We had been “upgraded” to a bigger car but Graham was keen to stick with the smaller one so we ended up with a Vauxhall Corsair in a very fetching gray.
Aided by Google Maps we made our way out of London and two hours later - and only a couple of minor diversions, we landed at our motel for the night and the next, the Colchester Holiday Inn Express. From there we had a simply fabulous lunch at the Crown Inn - I had the two courses for 22 quid ( the yummiest salmon fish cakes I have ever had + fruit crumble with custard) and Graham had the one plus a pint.
Later in the evening we had a downer when I discovered the second set of keys to 322 in the bottom of my bag. I felt so stupid! Mercifully Carey was happy with us sending them back by priority mail tomorrow morning. I love people like her who accept that sometimes we make mistakes. She is a star !!!⭐️
Anyway tomorrow after we find a post office, we will tour the places my grandmother Esther Watson’s father (and his people - the Ellis family - before him) came from all around Colchester - Wivenhoe, Ardleigh, Brightlingsea, and St Osyth.Read more