Another fantastic day in London, though it's late so this update will be brief. We started the day by heading out to the Piccadilly Circus area and browsing around some of the shops there. By chance, we saw a really cool clock with two butlers that came out on the chimes, and realized they were part of a store, Fortnum & Mason, that looked ( Read more... )

Tired today, as we began our day early (which was 12AM on my old time) with mass at Westminister Cathedral (not Westminister Abbey, which is the church where all the famous people are buried - that's the Church of England location, while this is the Catholic seat of England). The Cathedral had a beautiful boys' chorus that sung, and the acoustics ( Read more... )

Wow, Marks & Spencer dark chocolate all butter biscuits are good. I may need to ship back several boxes of these!

"Yesterday" morning (in quotes, because time gets weird with timezone switches) started in a promising way, with Jeff dropping me at the airport. Two hours later, British Airways had launched a vehicle the size of my house into the sky and I was ripping towards London. Woo! I actually managed to get a decent amount of sleep on the plane and arrived ( Read more... )