Visa medical was set for 12.50pm on Friday 27th May, and as Monday 30th was the Spring Bank Holiday, I decided to splash out and stay in London for three nights.
Got the train up Friday morning to Waterloo, took the Bakerloo line tube to Marylebone and then walked down Gloucester Place to the hotel. Dropped my bag off (too early for check-in) and walked over to the Knightsbridge Doctor's to make sure I knew where I was going!
Bought some lunch and then, still with at least an hour to my appointment, I went for a walk, spiralling out from Bentinck Street. I got bored of that eventually, and presented myself to the doctors at 12.30. They let me sit in the waiting room, and then gave me another questionnaire to complete, photocopied my passport, police certificate, etc.
Then I got called through by the vaccination nurse and, having noticed that I'd only had one MMR jab (why didn't my NHS doctor tell me I'd need a booster when I had the first one in January?) gave me the second one, a copy of the vaccinations report to keep, and then passed me on to the X-Ray guy.
Shirt off, lean against the board, chin up - X-ray taken (presumably for TB and other more nasty possibilities).
Back to the waiting room to sit down before called in to see the doctor. She took my height, weight, checked my eyesight, then I had to strip down to my boxers for more examinations - blood pressure, looked into my eyes, listened to heart and lungs from front and back, palpated my stomach area and checked that I'm a man, man! Finally, took some blood to send off to make sure that I don't have syphilis or similar!
Pay the fee and I'm done!
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