Tigger photographed this now familiar view this morning but notice an added detail: a rainbow. It is rather faint but you can perhaps make it out, running from the left end of the houses diagonally up to the right.

As the title says, today we return to London. For once our tickets are “open”, meaning that we can take any train. As there are three trains each hour to London St Pancras, we can take our time are leave when ready.

The Met Office forecasts rain with thunder storms later. For the moment the sun is shining but there is a hint of darker clouds to the west.

Before leaving the hotel room for the last time, I took a photograph of the Clock House as a souvenir. Not that I doubt that we’ll see it again in the not too distant future.

Tigger had some last-minute shopping to do so we took the opportunity to have breakfast in the Star Nergis cafe again.

Then we caught the bus to Ramsgate Station.

Trains to St Pancras leave at 7, 19 and 20 minutes past the hour, rather an odd distribution. We have half an hour to wait for the 11:07.

This is Tigger’s panoramic view of Ramsgate Station, looking rather like an eye!

As we speed towards our first stop at Canterbury West, this view of the countryside shows rain clouds gathering. The first drops streak the window.

We have crossed the Medway and arrived at Ebbsfleet International. In a few minutes we reach Stratford International which is already London and almost home. As if to emphasise the point, our train, an HS1, is running on Eurostar fast tracks and travelling at speed as though it is in as great a hurry to arrive as I am!

Stratford, London and nearly home. (Photo by Tigger.)

Here we are disembarking at St Pancras.

Walking through St Pancras Station. (Panorama by Tigger.)

We stopped off at El & N for coffee and sat at a table outside where we watched the people passing by on the station concourse. How many different ways are there to wear a face mask wrongly? I don’t know but we saw a good selection of them.

Coffee finished, we caught a 214 bus which carried us the rest of the way home.

Now all we have to do is make tea and unpack!