{"id":49787,"date":"2023-08-25T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49787"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:07:20","slug":"year-50-day-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/25\/year-50-day-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 115"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1162,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/London_Waterloo_station&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1163,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Tower_Hotel,_London&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302071545\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Tower_Hotel,_London&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:35:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:35:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d115-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife and I in front of the window of our hotel room in London. Behind us is a gorgeous view of Tower Bridge.\" title=\"y50d115.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 115: We&#8217;re (finally) off the boat and in London! The QMII docked in Southampton this morning, and we were very ready to move on. While the trans-Atlantic crossing was a really neat thing to do, with a lot of fun ties to history, we&#8217;re now pretty sure that that&#8217;s not a thing that we&#8217;d be intereste in doing again. Seven days at sea is a <em>long<\/em> time, and when you factor in the obviously high risk of getting ill&#8230;well. It was worth doing and the first half was a lot of fun; the tedious latter half, though, we&#8217;re happy to see the end of.<\/p>\n<p>So, we disembarked in Southampton, caught a cab to the Southampton train station, a train to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Waterloo_station\">London Waterloo station<\/a>, a London black cab to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tower_Hotel,_London\">Tower Hotel<\/a>, and checked into a room with the most incredible view I&#8217;ve ever had in a hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>After getting settled in, we walked across Tower Bridge and got dinner. Once we got back to the hotel, my wife (who was hit much harder by the bug that I was) needed rest, so I went out and took a two-hour walk enjoying the London evening and taking photos before finally coming back and heading to bed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bonus photos: Us crossing Tower Bridge, me on the Millennium Bridge, and my wife enjoying the view before bed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d115b1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife and I midway across Tower Bridge.\" title=\"y50d115b1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d115b2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me midway across the Millennium Bridge, with the Shard and Tower Bridge visible in the distance.\" title=\"y50d115b2.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d115b3-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife curled up in a chair under a blanket, looking out the hotel winow at the Tower Bridge lit up as the sky darkens into twilight.\" title=\"y50d115b3.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re (finally) off the boat and in London!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2049],"tags":[5760,5686],"class_list":["post-49787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos","tag-vacation","tag-year-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}