Day 29 Ghent to London

A very busy day with lots of travelling challenges but we made it! We left our lovely hotel by taxi to catch the train to Brussels. We then checked in for our Brussels to London Eurostar trip. And had a couple of hours to wait. We arrived in London at 1 30 and walked 7 minutes to our smallest accomodation yet- St Pancreas Inn. Lucky it was only for one night. We headed off by tube to Covent Garden where we met up with James, Laura and George McFarlane for a drink. That was lovely but we were all a bit overcome with the heat and how many people were there. Every spot was crowded and even walking around was a bit challenging especially with wee George in the pram. There seems to be lots on in London this weekend and everyone is enjoying the fine weather. We left Covent Garden to catch two different trains to the ABBA Arena for the show we had booked. ABBA Voyage is a groundbreaking virtual concert in London where digital avatars perform the band's greatest hits. The digital band members are accompanied by a 10-piece live band and perform in a custom-built, immersive venue known as the ABBA Arena at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It was truly spectacular and very hard to explain as you really would think you had been at a live ABBA show. The lighting was a show in itself and the live band and singers were fantastic. Unfortunately they had a very strict policy about no photos and were policing that very vigilantly. The whole stadium which was packed was dancing during the songs and the show finished with ABBA as they are today. Our reverse trip back was easy but required three changes of train so we felt very pleased with ourselves to have mastered that. However one of the trains was so packed we could hardly squeeze in and it was dreadful having to be that close to lots of hot people as we really were packed in like sardines. It was a relief when the doors opened and we collapsed onto the platform. Obviously by the time we got to bed at 11 we were well ready to be there and didn’t realise we were sleeping in a shoebox- just happy to be off our feet!!Read more