Brown Girl in London

Travelling on the tube

We've been on the tube a number of times so far and it's been easy. However, the farthest we've gone is only about 2 or 3 stops in both directions from the Kings Cross line - not very hard at all. But I'm beginning to understand how it works and what the different colour lines mean. Kings Cross, the one we're closest too, is on the Victoria Line - a light blue colour. It runs north & south. There are 1 or 2 stations on this line that connect to the other lines (like Picadilly, Northern, etc). So it's kind of like the Bloor subway stop where you can connect to the Danforth line or the Yonge or University lines. Neat, eh?

To ride the tube you have to buy a ticket - no cash. If it's a one-off ride then you'd just pay for a single trip which is 3GBP. But most likely it'll be a return so you'd get a 1-day travelcard, which is what we've been getting the past few days. You can get them in 1 and 3 days I think - but unless you know exactly where you're going and what zones your travelling in, (because the cost is different for travel to the different zones which is basically the farther you travel to the outskirts of the London the more costly it is), you might as well get a 1-day.

Also - a good thing to get a street map book. I figured that out yesterday when we went looking for the flat. An hours walk from the tube when it should've taken us 10 minutes! So we got one - a mini London A-Z! It's cute and compact and can easily travel with us in our purses without us looking like tourists! :D
This is the book and the travelcard from yesterday.

posted by RC @ 8:43 AM