Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Tuesday 18th

Am safely in Durham having negotiated the bus and two tubes across London to Kings Cross station with my heavy luggage. Not bad for an old lady, eh ! One of the advantages of my age is that people are actually offering to help me - there are gentlemen even in London- so I am accepting.
The train up here was very comfortable and they even have wireless internet access -plug in ! however, my little blue machine had decided to loose its LAN network connection and although I have tried for an hour an a half today to fix it I have not succeeded.
My friend Barbara , who I am staying with, does not have a PC so I am sitting in- yes, you guessed it- Durham Library using one of theirs. They actually let overseas people join and I got a choice of card colour- pink, green , blue or purple- I chose the latter.
It is a very nice library, which is quite new, about 5 years old. It is very quiet here on the Reference floor - there are three floors.
Durham is lovely and the weather is bright and sunny, but cold. Or , rather , it was today. It gets dark about 4p.m. so have to leave soon. I have explored some lovely shops today and now will go home for the evening.

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