Tip for Travellers: When you take credit and debit cards out of your wallet and put them away for safe-keeping, make sure you remember you've done it. I almost gave myself a heart attack today when I went to get a card out of my wallet today to check the CCV so I could pay for Sooz's Freud Museum tickets online and the card - and another one - wasn't there. Slight moment of panic until I remembered and that I needed to retrieve to I finish the transaction before the bank suspected there was something untoward happening - and contacted me for verification before safeguarding (read: freezing) the account. Luckily we were still in the hotel. Phew! Also, who knows the CCV for their card/s?
I had walked to the Wellcome via Gordon Park where there is a statue of Mahatma Ghandi and a cherry tree that was planted in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima. There is also a monument to/for conscientious objectors. It was even the more poignant because outside the British Medical Association across the road was the site of a blast by one of the four suicide bombers during the 7/7 attacks in London in 2005.
This afternoon Sooz and I took a London cab out to the Freud Museum. I knew it was going to be a bit of a steep fare when the driver kept apologising about the traffic! But we've never ridden in a London cab before so it all added to the experience.
We had a timed ticket for the Freud Museum and even though we were 20 minutes late getting there (we had to walk the last bit because only zero emission vehicles can enter that district between 3 and 4 in the afternoon - hmmmmm) they still let us in, and even though I hadn't planned to join Sooz on this particular pilgrimage, I decided that I would buy a ticket and accompany her. That was the plan anyway, but the person at the counter left me in for free! No-one is allowed on Freud's real couch though - but there is a replica upstairs where you can recline, reflect or take pictures.
