{"id":256,"date":"2005-07-04T01:44:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2005-07-04T01:44:12","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T01:44:12","slug":"paris-compton-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/04\/paris-compton-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris-Compton (London)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m fine. Somehow I didn’t figure out that any<\/strong> call (while roaming) would use minutes. In the UK it’s only calling out that you have to pay for: Which might explain why it’s so cheap for calling cards home here vs there.<\/p>\n

Anyway. All’s fine. I’m in a London hostel for the night \u2014 pretty incredible bar & population. When I called in to register he told me he wouldn’t take a reservation because he had a 100 free beds. This place is like a city block. It’s teaming with people. The bar is hopping. The lounge is full. The computer lab is full. It’s Sunday night, 1:30am Monday.<\/p>\n

At high cash burn rate (read “last two week”), I’ll burn thru everything I’ve got in the bank in 3 1\/2 months. My return tickets are for two months from now. The rent here is $200-something\/week. This is not a problem right now.<\/p>\n

My stamina may be.<\/p>\n

Today started at 1pm and began with a search for a way to get back to London today. It seems my plan of heading up to Amsterdam and catching my flight tomorrow was flawed, so I have to catch the flight from London Heathrow tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n

The bus tickets were sold out so I had to take the Channel Tunnel (“Chunnel”) Train back to London. Strangely enough, this wasn’t so much of a problem, even though it cost 7 times more than the bus. Because the only stretch of train I really wanted to ride was<\/strong> the Channel Tunnel. I was sent off by two lovely Mexicanas. No complaints.<\/p>\n

And that leads me to the Generator Hostel, in Compton Circle, near Russel Square in London. There’s a
\nbeautiful young woman glaring at a young man in this room. The young man’s not me. That’s ok.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow afternoon I catch a flight London-Amsterdam-Istanbul, without enough time to visit Amsterdam. Maybe I’ll mess with the airline and miss the last leg of the return flight. I can always take a ferry back to Dover. That too, is funny. I’ll have to ask about that: what if there are penalties??? If there, are I’ll come back to London. And go right up to Scotland on this rail pass cover nobody looks inside. It expires a couple days before I return. And I’m the only one who knows if I used it to go to Dover.<\/p>\n

What happened before Friday? I’ll get back to you about Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m fine. Somehow I didn’t figure out that any call (while roaming) would use minutes. In the UK it’s only calling out that you have to pay for: Which might explain why it’s so cheap for calling cards home here vs there. Anyway. All’s fine. I’m in a London hostel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[58,47,59,66,27],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-long-wander","tag-england","tag-france","tag-london","tag-paris","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}