A trip to Europe continues....

I stayed in the Waldorf for sometime but later on changed to a good but cheaper place, where I paid 1os, a day for bed and breakfast. During my stay in London, I called on Mr. Justice Harrison who was then a Judge of the Lahore High Court spending his vacation in a beautiful country place near Cambridge.

I had lunch with him and he showed me round and took me into the garden of the house which had a golf course also. On enquiry, we discovered that the whole of the garden and the golf course was being looked after by one gardener and the household was run by a part time maid and a chauffeur. In India, an establishment of at least two dozen servants would be required to maintain such a house and garden! We were also invited by Mr. Justice Addison, another Judge of the Lahore High Court, to tea and we spent a nice evening with him in one of the suburbs of London,

We visited the Kew Gardens, Hampstead Heath, and the British Museum. I was very much interested in travelling by the tube. To get to a tube station one had to get down by escalator. Somebody had told me in India that if one wanted to see London, he should see it from the top of a bus! I took his advice and sat on the top of a bus for a whole day and saw a considerable part of London.

While in London, I was very much impressed by the business integrity and honesty of Englishmen. They never took advantage of a stranger’s ignorance by charging fantastic prices. The manner they did their banking business was simply amazing. I had my account with the Grindlays while Mr. Jagan Nath had an account with the Lloyds Bank. One day we went together to the Lloyds Bank intending to go to Grindlays in Parliament Street thereafter.

to be continued..

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