St Athans Hotel London

... came across Kensington Street and this area was pretty fascinating: tons of consulates, embassies, a large Islamic population, including a Saudi pharmacy where I bought over-the-counter Sudafed, which was also offered as a stronger dose (along with many other common over-the-counters) if the Pharmacist was in to sell it to me. It's interesting--they have "P" labeled drugs that aren't prescribed but are stronger and can be given out by the ...

... up at a decent hour, had brekky in the hotel and then headed off to Oxford Circus which is apparently the main strip where most locals shop. It has all the big chains like Selfridges, Marks and Spencer, H&M, Primark etc.. we wanted to find some lighter clothes to buy for Egypt cos of how hot it is going to be there. But I ended up with only getting one pair of cargo pants from M&S.. Primark here ended up being like the old style ...

... High Street Kingston to consumed our essential first latte of the day. Five pounds later we were ready to walk to the Underground and head to Southfields village in north London where we inspected the prices of the local real estate, visited the local pharmacy to find a remedy for Glenn's blistered feet and purchased a bunch of grapes from the local fruit shop. We then headed down Wimbledon Park road towards our iconic destination. We arrived at the Wimbledon ...

... right now (on here at least, my brain is still spazzing.)

Yesterday Kim and I were supposed to go to Hampton Court Palace, but when I went to wake her up I think her exact words were "bleghhhhsaahesshhh let's switch days." And in Kim language, that translates into: "good morning Amy! I'm sorry that you got up so early to leave and are all ready to go, but would we be able to do Hampton Court Palace tomorrow instead?" Thank god I speak her language, because I ...

... trains, etc).. Paddington Station was pretty neat to see! 3) Walking around the streets, while waiting for Susan to get in, it was very odd to force myself to look the 'wrong' way before crossing the streets. And, on top of that, you only make it half-way across before having to stop and wait for the rest of the traffic coming from the other 'wrong' direction. Weird! Once Susan had arrived it was time to get to Cardiff via the ...

... with Mastercard getting everything sorted. Customer Service at Harrods was very nice. Went back to make my purchase and they guy put everything back...after I specifically asked him to hold on to it!!! However, because I was so mad at him, I decided to go to another floor where I had maybe seen a few other things and found a green purse to add to my basket ... so it turned out well in the end. .

... headed over to Big Ben and Westminster Abbey to take some pictures and check that out!! We just bummed around too, because we had figured out our way around by then. After an afternoon full of walking, we lucked out on getting back on the Big Bus Company bus, our tour bus that had ended for us, and they didnt look at our tickets, so we cruised around on that for the remainder of the afternoon. We were all ...

Mushrooms? I don't know, I'm in England and they love alliteration here. We do eat mushrooms quite a bit through. Get them over the Rd for 67p from Sainsbury's and add them to pasta. Sometimes even plump for the 95p ones as they taste better. Where was I, ok, muso's. I had something of real note last night to go on about. I went to a Sonic Youth gig just up the Rd at the Camden roundhouse. It was absolutely wonderful, but maybe only of interest to those ...

... over for the usual touch, feel and ask questions. It's always the same thing, so now I resort to asking non-medical ones, because they realistically have no idea. They do try though. One was from Malaysia, and she looked like a Pakistani, and the other was from Pakistan, but she looked Iranian. She was even dressed like a Shiite, not a Sunni, so I asked her why and she said she thought it was more neutral looking than the Sunni way. She said her father was not ...