Easter in London

Its the start of a long Easter weekend and 3 weeks school holiday. In Holland there are only 7 public holidays in a year of which two of them fall this weekend. Most of Europe have Friday and Monday off for Good Friday and Easter Monday. This year Easter coincides with Maulid Nabi or Prophet's birthday which is public holiday in Brunei. In some MiddleEast countries, they have up to 2 public holidays for Maulid and they continue with the Easter break. So it is a much longer break for these people.

This time we drove to London - the fourth time we have done it since arriving here. We set off after work yesterday on Thursday, leaving The Hague at 4.30 pm. We were caught up in the normal rush-hour traffic jams as expected. But there were also a couple of other unexpected traffic jams caused by road accidents in Belgium. The strong winds and pouring rains make it quite dangerous condition to drive. It should have taken 3 and a half hours but we only reached the EuroTunnel in Calais 5 hour later. Then we boarded the EuroTunnel train which runs every 20 minutes (see photo). From the other side, in Folkestone, it took us another 1.5 hours to reach Central London. We only reached there at 12.30 midnight. Luckily UK is 1 hour behind. So actually we arrived there at 11.30 midnight which does not sound as bad...