Human Rights, Human Wrongs, and all of life's glorious rights of passage as seen through the eyes of a stranger in a strange land.


Saturday, May 31, 2008

I see London, I see France, i see Caylee's Underpants

Well i'm in London. I saw a lot of the big sights yesterday, and we did a spectacular pub crawl last night. They do pubs right here. I'll post some pictures soon. My computer is fixed! I will post some pictures and skype with you fine people monday.

So the plane here (which cost $40 by the way) was a choose your own seat. Of course, i chose the seat with the baby who screams and cries and kicks my seat the whole way. It doesn't matter so much, i slept for the middle chunk because this week beat me up pretty good, enjoyable as it was. As i hopped on the bus to southern London, which took just under an hour, i had originally picked a seat in front of a crying baby again. I got the hell up out of there and picked a kindly seat up neat the front.

London is incredibly easy to navigate to me. Maybe its that its conveniently set up, but i think a lot of it has to do with everything being in English. Its remarkable to me that i am able to read all signs that i desire, or ask people questions and get answers.

Also, an example of how brutally expensive Geneva is, i am actually in London, against the pound, and can't believe how much cheaper things are.

A comment about Big Ben, which reminds me to wish the Pistons a nice off-season. Anyway, Big Ben...not that big. I was expecting it to me much bigger. It really should be decently-sized Ben. Furthermore, IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE THE SAME DONG SOUNDS THAT WE PISTONS FANS BELIEVED! This was a shock to me.

It was also just brought to my attention that while i will spend about $15 on a steak dinner in Israel, as opposed to the $38 i am not spending in Geneva. The New Israeli Shekel is at a 3.3 conversion rate with the dollar. You remember our 4.6 rate year coursers? Ain't that amazing. That's fine though. My busy still costs $6, when it would cost something like $20 in Geneva...and it's a BUSI, so my enthusiasm would not be diminished anyway.

Well, today we're going to see secondary London...basically all of the non essentials because i saw Buckingham Palace, got my picture with the cool guard dude, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, House of Parliament, etc.

Oh yeah, i'm in London, and so is The Boss (Bruce Springsteen for you ignorants)

Peace and Love. Go Wings, bring home Stanley.

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