London View…
Posted on March 7, 2004 at 9:59 am | No Comments
from my hotel room, nineteen stories up…
That’s Earl’s Court in the background there, looking southwest from central London.
I was abducted last night by a crazy drunken Irishman from Cork, who had also abducted three Irish ladies in town for “the big rugby match”. (“Hey, Mr. Laptop, get over ‘ere and ‘ave a drink wif us!”) I guess Ireland beat the world champs (although it was just a ‘friendly’ match), so he treated me to gin & tonics along with incomprehensible rugby rules lessons. The perfect start to my two weeks abroad.
10 hours of sleep and I wake to appropriately grey clouds outside my hotel window. A light lunch and a quick call to Jo to make some plans… a driving tour of London with her and Shaun, and I can’t wait. I’m sitting in the lobby on a wireless connection, waiting for them to arrive, excited to finally get out of this Holiday Inn. Time to get manic on the streets of London…
such miserable weather
but England’s as happy as England can be…”
– Harriet Wheeler
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