London in the winter

I'm headed across the pond to spend a week in London.

Winter in London is not nearly as foreboding as the photo I found portrays it to be. It very rarely snows, and if it does, the city shuts down.

I went in January a few years back, and I was never cold. At least not until I returned to Omaha, and had to dig my car out of snow and ice because the only parking spot available when I left, was on the roof of the parking garage.

I'm staying at a different hotel - I'm a creature of habit, and like to stay in places that I am familiar with when in an unfamiliar city. Which is why I had always stayed in the same hotel - I knew the part of town, where the 'tube' was, where the stores were, the restaurants, the pubs, and how to get to the office. This hotel is closer to the office (but in the opposite direction) - it has a fitness center onsite - a 'sky lounge' - and several other updated 'American' amenities.

I bet I get lost [if even for a tiny little minute] the first day.