Speaking of Tube...:

Yesterday, when I arrived from Munich, and tried to travel from Gatwick to London, I had two mysterious experiences.

First. There were no trains to London Bridge any more, so I had to take a train to London Victoria. What happened was that we were stuck for about 13 minutes at Battersea Park (where the train was not even supposed to stop!). Reason? Our train was a 12 coach train, and they did not have any sufficiently long platform free for us at Victoria.

Like, seriously? The train was perfectly on time, and it's not that it's a random train which only runs once a year! It's every day the same thing, so how come they were surprised to the extent of having no platform ready for us? O_o

Second. From Victoria, I had to take Tube. Victoria Line to be precise. Those who read my stuff regularly know about my funny stories from Piccadilly and Central of a Friday night. Well, maybe it was because it was approx an hour earlier, but Victoria was not like that yesterday. The people were much less drunk and much more interesting than in Piccadlly / Central. They were apparently subculture people, few goths, some skinheads (not Nazi skinheads, ska skinheads), many hippies in colourful shirts, etc.

(I travelled from Victoria, southbound, if that's of any relevance.)