Your day begins with breakfast at your lovely London hotel in the Kensington district, located near the famous London tube (subway). After a breakfast that includes English tea, you take a very short walk to the tube. As you leave the hotel for the day, you look back and marvel at its entry with scalloped awning and green plants on either side of the attractive front doors and the inviting lobbyall the luxury you have dreamed of on your vacation.
Stepping onto the tube, the recorded voice says mind the gap, mind the gap, as the doors open and close automatically. Soon, it will seem as if you have always known mind the gap is a reference to the gap between the platform and the underground subway train. After you board the Circle Line, which is always designated by its own special color, you listen to the British accents. Courtesy is evident everywhere you go, and you are astonished at how quickly you come to know the names of the famous tube stops. You listen for Blackfriars, and then you know that you can get off when you hear and see Monument or Tower Hill stops. You could have taken the bus too, but today you wanted to experience London and the tube.
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