First day in John Lewis office
[2007.06.25] I took Tube from Gloucester Rd to Victor station in the morning. Victor coach station is a busy central station where is also national railway station and Gatwick express station. It is very close to Buckingham Palace too, so I plan in next couple day I will walk to the Queen’s residence during lunch break.
John Lewis office is not far from the station, right on Victor Rd. People at Jonh Lewis seem to be friendly and laid-back. They come to office around 9am and start to leave at 5:00pm. You do not see people in office after 6:00pm. During a meeting, they chatted more about some stories and upcoming “treasure-hunt” on Wednesday - it is for the colleagues as a group to go to many pubs, one after one, and have drinks! British drink lots of beers, while French drink wine.
The night in London is rather strange, it seems never go complete dark, you just feel it is getting dark, and that “getting dark” period last until 11:00pm, and in the morning (because jet lag, I wake up/or stay up until 4:00am), it is getting daylight around 3:30am. This is around Solstice time, northern part of earth has very long day, and London is probably at the same latitue of Canada. No wonder.
No fancy food today. Breakfast at Burger King, lunch in John Lewis cafeteria, and dinner at KFC. I am sure I will start to explore other alternatives tomorrow. I don’t need American junk food here.