If Id never heard anything about Londons weather, I would say its broiling hot based on my experiences there. It reached 100F for the first time ever during my stay in 2003 and passed 40C (104F) for the first time in history yesterday.
Of course, these temperatures at only 20% humidity wouldnt be anything special in New Delhi or Dubai or Houston, but London isnt at all built for it. Even places with air conditioning like department stores and museums didnt have the BTUs to keep up.
We had south from Edinburgh early because trains were projected to be canceled due to the tracks buckling. I dont know if the train lines in Spain (much hotter) are made of different materials?
Luckily, we stayed in a major hotel and enough inside. But since London is so expansive, we either had to pack into the stuffy, hot tubes or walk long distances. We stayed in the Kensington area, which mostly kept us away from the tourists and allowed us to find our own local pub, The Scarsdale Tavern, in a beautiful upscale neighborhood.
I had no idea who he was. Peggy just turned to him and said, Hey, what are you doing here? and I went along with it.
Park, which allowed us a little relief from the heat, though they werent all that shady, perhaps since normally Londoners are trying to soak up what little sun they get.
Since it was far too hot to watch King Lear at the Globe Theatre which is outside, we went to the Duke of Yorks Theatre to see Amy Adams in The Glass Menagerie. The current plays and musicals being performed were mostly the same ones you could see in any American city, which was a little disappointing.
Peggy got out some cash when we first arrived, but cards are so ubiquitous in London that we had to plan out how to spend it all. Many shops and restaurants were Like NYC, you can just tap your credit card to board the metro. Even 20p restrooms had card readers.
