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London: Day 1

London: Day 1

The final evening Maria came to the Churchill Room with me and met my “friends,” including Sir John Gielgud (Sean) whom you’ll see in an accompanying photo.

Breakfast on board, very civilized, no rush, docked in Southampton. Yesterday I had seen three birds flying aft of us, and I calculated we were 200 miles from land. Maybe they were the harbor pilots.

Cunard takes about an hour to offload the luggage while everyone relaxes. Then we receive priority disembarkation, which is handled like a military operation. We’re actually about the fourth people off the ship, our luggage is sitting in the designated area, and our driver is about 20 yards away, waiting.

He manages to get five bags into the big BMW (one will be Fedexed home from London) and then proceeds to get us to London in 90 minutes, driving, well, like someone I know.

The Haymarket Hotel is very trendy, quite nice, and the conference room is behind the indoor pool, which is lighted and heated and really something, what with fountains of water cascading into it. Should be an interesting program beginning tomorrow!

Tonight we’re off to Le Caprice, where we go every time we’re in London.

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Alan in the Churchill Room:

Alan and bon vivant Sean:

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Alan Weiss is a consultant, speaker, and author of over 60 books. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients from over 500 leading organizations around the world.

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