Phyllis Court Club Henley-on-Thames

We've moved into our new apartment! We are currently stealing internet from our neighbors' wireless, soon we'll get our own. Here are a few pictures for you! We are really pleased with our decision to wait and keep trying to find our perfect home. The rent here is expensive, but that is the case anywhere in London. We are close to the tube, close to the high road, the markets, and the parks. There is a Russian Orthadox Church 100 yards down the street from us ...

... at Connor's class at school. Dave arrived in the afternoon from Heathrow and his driver was the one who had taken me to the golf course. When Dave gave him the address the driver said to him I have already been there twice this week. The bloke who is staying there gets to the course before the greens keepers and this morning I got there early and there he was ready to go early. Cobham definitely has its small ...

... we were able to get everything resolved and even managed to get upgraded to an Executive suite. We decided to freshen up a little bit before making our way thru the city. We only had about three hours of sleep but we felt we had enough energy to do a walkabout around inner London. We ended up going to Picadilly Circus and Leicster Square. A very touristy area that's a kin to Times Square ...

... fait que j'ai dormi une bonne partie du trajet, en fait jusqu'à notre halte routière. J'ai mangé un peu, puis on est reparti. Ça a été long passer aux douanes! Ils ont amené le gars derrière moi pour une fouille. Le bus venait d'Amsterdam en passant. Ils ont fini par découvrir que ce qui avait déclenché l'alarme, c'est un album photo que sa blonde a acheté là-bas... Un album photo en Hemp. Haha! Un gars m'a demandé d'ouvrir mon sac et a regardé un peu ce qu'il y avait dedans. Il a vérifi ...

... the next day. What an amazing achievement! We chatted for a while and shared family news, before heading out to lunch at a lovely country pub - the food all delicious in the extreme on account of it being owned - and the menu created - by a celebrity chef. After our meal we headed down to the Thames, the riverside being even more lovely here than in Windsor, and we walked across a weir and watched canal boats in the locks for a while before joining John and ...

... to get the hang of things here.

Here is my building. Everyone in the program is staying here at the "Crofton." It's in Queen's Gate Palace in South Kensington, an incredibly beautiful, wealthy area of the London.

The first morning I woke up in London I went for a run in the famous Hyde Park. It's so beautiful and I knew I had to come back with my camera. Our building is literally 1 ...

... back up (mental note, don't take malaria tablets on an empty stomach). After checking out went and got last minute bits and bobs on Oxford street, then after lunch in St James's park, went to see the queen, Big Ben, Tony & Gordon, Cherie was out. After brief rest in Trafalgar square had a quick butchers at Leicester Square, failing to find TMI studio though did find Gandalfs hand prints. Then back to pick up bags to do battle with tube and Heathrow ...

... some of us went to camdem town to have a walk nd it was nice but it finished pretty soon casue we were all pretty smashed so everyone went back home. it was a strange day, mostly on public transportation, but it was nice anyway maybe i had this nice feeling casue i was sourrounded from ppl i really like. but yeah big masses are really hard to coordinate to hang out. tomorrow to kill will have a new tattoo...

Coriolanus (The Globe Theatre - London) This is a very obscure play with good reason - it's dreadful. It's a story of political intrigue and misused power (gee, you'd think he could come up with something new) but this plays does not have the personal interest others like Henry V, Macbeth, Richard III to name but a few, do. Coriolanus' mother (Volumnia) is the scene stealer and in this production she was not exception. She is ...

... or what. While we were in the square, the Saint Martin-in-the-Fields church bells were chiming. It was fun for me because I learned how to do some chimes on the bells in our church's bell tower in Edinburgh when I lived there. These are big bells, people! A big rope hangs off of each one and each person pulls their rope at the appropriate time (and tension) for the bell to ring at the proper point in the chime. We made it to the British Museum ...