Podcast Time: My UK Vacation And My Horrible Bad Luck

First, let me just say, I m usually a lucky person. I m not particularly adventurous. Actually, I m kind of boring and ordinary. I never thought that my vacation in The UK could go so horribly wrong. The first problem I had was at the airport when I arrived in England. The border guard did not think that I looked like the photo on my passport. I did look a bit different. Since getting my passport, I d lost a few kilos, cut my hair, and stopped wearing glasses. It took four hours to convince several customs officers that I was indeed the person in the passport picture. I was so exhausted after this that I decided to take a taxi into town instead of the Tube. My friends had all told me to take the Tube, because it was faster. The traffic going into London was awful. It took me another hour and a half to get to my fourstar hotel in central London. The hotel receptionist checked her computer and told me that they did not have a room reservation for me. She told me that, since I had arrived almost six hours lat