Monterrey to London - Just One Small Hiccup

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Off to a good start on this trip with only one small hiccup.  Woke up Tuesday morning and checked our flight, which should have left at 1 p.m.  I had arranged a 9:30 a.m. pickup with the taxi.  I opened Delta only to find out there were weather and crew issues in Atlanta.  We had been watching it, knowing that the storm was passing through.  Sure enough, we were changed to Aeromexico via Mexico City at 7:42 p.m.

There was a time not long ago that we had no Uber service where we lived.  I hadn't checked in years.  Well, we do now, and I checked throughout the morning.  There were plenty.  At 3 p.m. I called for an Uber.  We had one in seven minutes.   Everything went well after that.  At the Monterrey airport, the person at the ticket counter told me that the plane change they had made for me was too close to get me to immigration for my sign-out.   She moved us to an earlier flight and gave us aisle seats.  Again, no charge for seats.  It worked out beautifully.

An uneventful trip with great company, good food, drinks, and a whopper of a movie, Dead Of Winter.  

Arrived in London, immigration was just a pass of the hand and facial recognition, off to buy the SIM cards, 150 gb for 35 quid (sorry, battling with the British pound sign on my laptop).  Then the fun began.  I've never seen so many people in such a rush to get somewhere.  Literally running to catch the tube or a train.  We had instructions from our Airbnb so we followed that and asked a dozen or so people along the way.  Made it.  We are using debit cards, so with contactless, you need to tap in and tap out on each leg of the trip.  I'm waiting for the bank to update so I can check the charges, but it shows only $1.34 for the day.  That can't be right.

We made it just before dark to the cottage we rented, and the host and her son are very nice.  A lot of shopping is nearby in about a 15-minute walk.  We were beat, but we went out and ordered some Hindu food from Royal Majal Nurbury.  We shared a biryani and a wrap 140 pesos.  Delicious along with the traditional vodka on the rocks.  A quick glance at the news and we both had heavy eyelids.  I woke up just a bit ago at 7 a.m., definitely not me.

We off today for our first adventure so stay tuned.