anecdotes of london: the tube

after leaving heathrow, which was as far as I had ever gotten to uk soil previously, I first commuted down what seemed to be and endless escalator to the british ubahn, the tube. after mastering the first hurdle, getting tickets and realising that there was only one possible train to take (yes makes things easy!) I found myself faced with a tiny wormlike almost round metal thing racing around london uderground at horrendous speeds. the seas werent arranged in groups of 4 a i was used to , but in two rows facing each other. it took me some minutes to get used to all this, figure out that the tunnel was barely 10 cm larger than the tube (for it really is a tube) and to get comfortable with the mode of trasport. now, after a week of daily use, it has become my friend. I find it cute, cuter than the already cute stuttgart ubahns and of course very very useful.