MY PLAN FOR LEAVING LONDON

I will be leaving Lewisham to go to Heathrow during the morning peak hour so I wanted to be sure of the trains I will take. I MUST have lifts. It is too difficult handling two suitcases and a bag on stairs or escalators. I will need to walk about 10 minutes downhill to Lewisham station.

The plan was to go to Canary Wharf by DLR (Docklands Light Rail) and then go on the Jubilee line to Green Park and from there on the Piccadilly line to Heathrow. The first step was to figure out how to get from DLR [A] to Jubilee [B] at Canary Wharf. These stations are part of a very large indoor shopping centre. After an hour of walking past many shops, going up and down escalators and finding lifts I decided to ask for help. I could get from A to B but not with a lift for each floor. The kind gentleman who helped me suggested I not attempt to do that at Canary Wharf but to get off at Heron Quays which he said is closer to the Jubilee line. Shucks!

On another trip to London I got off at Heron Quays and discovered it was a much shorter route with lifts to the Jubilee line. I wrote my route down so I could manage it confidently when there will be hundreds of people around me scurrying off to their jobs.

All this will probably take me about two hours.