Post by spaceflower on Jun 24, 2017 12:09:17 GMT
There is always a lot of walking when you’re a tourist in a big city. So no wonder I got blisters on my soles. “Mind the gap” was something I heard on trains when they stopped. But not on entering.
Obviously I reacted automatically, like I was entering a Stockholm metro train. So I did not notice the big level difference between the platform and the metro train (which gap does not exist in Stockholm). I got a cut in my leg from the metro train wagon edge and fell headlong into the wagon. My daughter stopped the blood with a paper handkerchief while I was sitting a bit shocked. Then she wiped up the blood from the floor.
But I did the same thing the next day, not learning from experience. So I now have two cuts in my right leg. Both times were when we going “home” so I was probably tired and unconcentrated. The first day was after being on a “city hunt” around Elephant and Castle, to a flea market, to Leadenhall market, Clink museum, Borough market and finally going to a Taiwanese restaurant called Bao. In Sweden, all Chinese restaurants have red signs with both Latin and Chinese letters, red lamps, traditional Chinese decorating etc. This Bao seemed very anonymous looking to me but the food was good.
Jerker said I was lucky that I did not break my hip, ankle or wrist. My daughter said that this must be because I exercised and that I had to keep on exercising.
The second day we went by boat to Canary wharf and walked about in super modern Docklands. We also went to Poplar High street (which I wanted to visit b/c of the series Call the midwife) and met a woman who told us that she grew up there but they were not so poor as in the TV-series. Her school was bombed out during WW2. Then we went to Docklands museum and to Chinatown to buy some food before going home by the underground and I hurt myself for the second time.
I really can’t understand these gaps/level differences. What if you have to support yourself by a stick, rollator or sit in a wheel chair?
Obviously I reacted automatically, like I was entering a Stockholm metro train. So I did not notice the big level difference between the platform and the metro train (which gap does not exist in Stockholm). I got a cut in my leg from the metro train wagon edge and fell headlong into the wagon. My daughter stopped the blood with a paper handkerchief while I was sitting a bit shocked. Then she wiped up the blood from the floor.
But I did the same thing the next day, not learning from experience. So I now have two cuts in my right leg. Both times were when we going “home” so I was probably tired and unconcentrated. The first day was after being on a “city hunt” around Elephant and Castle, to a flea market, to Leadenhall market, Clink museum, Borough market and finally going to a Taiwanese restaurant called Bao. In Sweden, all Chinese restaurants have red signs with both Latin and Chinese letters, red lamps, traditional Chinese decorating etc. This Bao seemed very anonymous looking to me but the food was good.
Jerker said I was lucky that I did not break my hip, ankle or wrist. My daughter said that this must be because I exercised and that I had to keep on exercising.
The second day we went by boat to Canary wharf and walked about in super modern Docklands. We also went to Poplar High street (which I wanted to visit b/c of the series Call the midwife) and met a woman who told us that she grew up there but they were not so poor as in the TV-series. Her school was bombed out during WW2. Then we went to Docklands museum and to Chinatown to buy some food before going home by the underground and I hurt myself for the second time.
I really can’t understand these gaps/level differences. What if you have to support yourself by a stick, rollator or sit in a wheel chair?