Wednesday 20th February ~ Double Deck up Highbury New Park

It was another cold day, max temperature 4 degrees. At around 13.20 I boarded Solo OS10 on the W5 at Harringay Sainsbury's for the ride to Crouch End Broadway, where it was terminated. I bought some Maynard's sours and boarded Enviro400 TE932 on the 91, which I took to Aldwych - another premature termination. From Aldwych I caught Vyking VLE19 on the 9 to Green Park via Pall Mall. I sat in Green Park and had my rye bread sandwiches and coffee. It was too cold to sit and read though so I headed for the bus stop at Green Park to board New Routemaster LT4 on the 38 to Victoria. At Victoria it was single decker time with Citaro MEC15 on the 507 to Waterloo, this running via Horseferry Road and Lambeth Bridge. Thence to Baylis Road to board Enviro400 T155 on the 341 to Harringay Green Lanes. Due to continuing roadworks at Newington Green this had a pretty rateworthy diversion down Beresford Road and Highbury New Park. Due to more roadworks just north of Manor House progress was very slow up Green Lanes and I settled in to read my book 'On the Road to Babadag' by Andrzej Stasiuk, and lost myself in his Romanian exploits. Arrival at HGL was about 18.10, the trip from Waterloo having taken about 90 minutes!