We had snow yesterday. Quite a bit (for London). I woke up at 6.30am and looked out the window to see if the 5am snowfall rumour was true and it most certainly was. I knew that it would be difficult getting to work but I didn't know how difficult.
My usual route to work takes me one stop on the tube from Finsbury Park to Highbury & Islington and then I get the bus 277 from there which takes me all the way to Canary Wharf and drops me right outside the HSBC building. I can usually do the route in under an hour on a good day. I imagined that the roads would be very slushy causing the bus journey to be slow and so I opted for an all-tube journey.
I got on at Finsbury Park, 2 stops to Kings Cross. At Kings Cross, went down to the Northern Line which was packed solid (the platform as well as the trains). So I went up to the Piccadilly Line and took it 2 stops to Holborn where I thought I could either take a bus to Bank Station and get the Docklands Light Rail to Canary Wharf, or get a bus to Waterloo and take the Jubilee Line to Canary Wharf from there. I opted for the latter only to find when I reached Waterloo that the Jubilee Line was closed due to overcrowding.
I then looked at a bus map. I'm starting to get a little fed up by now. I just want to be at work in the warmth. I took bus number 188 to Canada Water (25 mins). Canada Water is one stop away from Canary Wharf on the Jubilee Line but is also across the river from it. I went down to get on the tube but couldn't, it was packed solid. I went back up to the bus depot to see what else I could do. I knew there was a ferry nearby so I got on bus number C1 which dropped me at the Hilton Hotel Nelson Dock which operates one of the ferry stops. I purchased my ticket and boarded the ferry for the 5 minute chug over to Canary Wharf.
All in all this journey took me 2 hours and 20 minutes. Its amazing how different southern England handles this type of weather to the north of the country.
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