In the meantime

[Paul S]

National express coach for just £5 from Heathrow to London, then Jubilee + DLR from there.

[ad hoc]

Thanks everyone. Got a fair idea now of how I'll do it.

Slowly on the mend AE thanks. Doing the London - Csikszereda (or vice versa) trip 3 times in 8 days is not really the best convalescence programme, but them's the breaks.

[Tubby Isaacs]

You can't not tell us your route, Ad Hoc.

[Capybara]

You can't not tell us your route, Ad Hoc.

He may have to change at the last minute. I'm looking forward to a full report. BB&F! would get a whole blog piece out of it.

[WOM]

taxi

[Tubby Isaacs]

He may have to change at the last minute. I'm looking forward to a full report. BB&F! would get a whole blog piece out of it.

BB&F has a blog? Where?

[Capybara]

BB&F has a blog? Where?

Here

[ad hoc]

Well I will get on the tube at Heathrow and decide then, almost certainly alighting at Green Park, and getting on the Jubilee line from where I will decide between getting off at London Bridge or carrying on to Canary Wharf as per Steveeeeee's suggestion. Fair amount depends on my mood on the day and what time it is. My flight is due in at 2 pm and if it's on time I ought to beat rush hour fairly comfortably. But if it's late and I find myself approaching London Bridge Station after about 4, I'll almost certainly do the DLR one

[Nefertiti2]

I'm with Tubby the change between the Piccadilly and Jubilee lines is long...you could try Piccadilly to District,(easy) at say Hammersmith and District to Westminster (also easy) then Jubilee

[johnr]

I'm thinking that you should go via Canning Town and look towards the Barking Road; there, you'll just be able to catch where I had my first snog, with a girl who packed me in three days later because my kisses tasted of chocolate.*

Which doesn't rankle, 40 years later...

* I had just eaten a Marathon, to be fair.

[Nefertiti2]

I'd have thought chocolate-flavoured kisses would be a bonus.

[Various Artist]

Yeah, I was struggling to see how that would be a downside to most people, too.

And – oh!

That rarest of things, a Spacehog earworm.

Yes, indeed. Tune.

[hobbes]

I'm thinking that you should go via Canning Town and look towards the Barking Road; there, you'll just be able to catch where I had my first snog, with a girl who packed me in three days later because my kisses tasted of chocolate.*

Which doesn't rankle, 40 years later...

* I had just eaten a Marathon, to be fair.

Do people snicker when you tell that story?

[johnr]

I'd have thought chocolate-flavoured kisses would be a bonus.

That's genuinely what I said to my mate when he told me the news (he'd been given the task by his girlfriend, who was my potential girlfriend's best mate. Them were the days.)

(To Hobbes) I wondered about (es)chewing the Marathon for a Snickers reference, but didn't want to alienate our non-UK OTFers from what could be a riveting thread diversion.

Anyway, as you were.

[ad hoc]

I'm with Tubby the change between the Piccadilly and Jubilee lines is long...you could try Piccadilly to District,(easy) at say Hammersmith and District to Westminster (also easy) then Jubilee

The beauty of "how do I?" London transport questions is that they can unite the most implacable of foes. (and of course divide the best of friends)

[DCI Harry Batt]

Thank fuck someone finally mentioned a cab

[Nefertiti2]

That's genuinely what I said to my mate when he told me the news (he'd been given the task by his girlfriend, who was my potential girlfriend's best mate. Them were the days.)

(To Hobbes) I wondered about (es)chewing the Marathon for a Snickers reference, but didn't want to alienate our non-UK OTFers from what could be a riveting thread diversion.

Anyway, as you were.

Maybe she had a peanut allergy.

[ad hoc]

Taking a cab from Heathrow to Greenwich would necessitate me pawning one of my children. For the sake of shaving 15 minutes off my journey

[WOM]

'One'....not both.

[Gangster Octopus]

Thank fuck someone finally mentioned a cab

Not everyone is as rich as you...

[Benjm]

He claims to be a socialist but I've heard that he habitually wears two shoes rather than giving one away.

[Gangster Octopus]

Here's hoping.

[San Bernardhinault]

Even if you could afford to take a cab, it's pretty pointless - the routes to the South and East are just horrible and it would still take you forever to get to Greenwich, but in the discomfort of a cab where you can't relax and read. I don't even know where you'd sensibly pick up a cab en-route.

[pebblethefish]

There's also the fact that you can't drink on the underground, whereas you can on overground services.

[Ginger Yellow]

I've done the Heathrow Express to Paddington, taxi to Greenwich thing a couple of times, when it's been really late and I've had a lot of luggage. It's not ideal, and bloody expensive.