On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Jarle H Knudsen wrote:

This year¢s London vacation is coming up, and what do you know? The RMT is
threatening to strike when one of us is flying home from Heathrow.

We are staying in Walthamstow, near Bakers Arms (Lea Bridge Road/Hoe
Street/High Road Leyton intersection)[1]. The flight is scheduled for
0950am on Thursday, June 30.

You could consider spending the last night at a hotel near Heathrow. That
makes the tube strike on the 30th a non-issue, and enables a much more
civilised morning - up at 0730, quick shower, hop on a bus into the
airport, check in, leisurely breakfast, and away. None of this getting up
at 0500 business.

However, the strike starts at noon on the 29th, so there is a still some
challenge in getting to the hotel. You could get a train from Paddington
easily enough; perhaps you could come into town on the tube before noon,
dump luggage somewhere (no idea where, though), spend the day in town,
have dinner somewhere around Edgware Road, then head off to Paddington by
bus, cab, foot, or Boris Bike to get the train.

tom

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