This Was The Week That Was or... London is a riot...really!

Bobby trying to get people off wall.

The world economy must still be pretty good, lots of visitors.

More changing of the guard.

Construction is everywhere...Olympics prep.

Culture.

Tower of London...Tre'-bu-chet.

"Eye-eye cap'n"  or  "If you build it they will come".

  We can handle the enormous ubiquitous crowds.  We can handle the riots and police now everywhere.  We can handle our Wembley Stadium tickets for Holland vs England being canceled.  What some of us can't handle is our flat mate.  I believe he is just a butler but Sarah insists he's a rodent.  Stanley is very cute and quite proper but he may have to go.  With open windows and no screens, I just assume the butlers come and go as they please.

Europe Heaven and Hell

   Our Australian waitress asked us the other night if we'd heard of the European Heaven and Hell. Here goes:
European Heaven: English police (friendly/carry only a stick)  
                             French food                                                                   
                             German trains                                                              
                             Italian lovers                                                                  
                             Swiss organization

Europe Hell:          English Food
                             French trains
                            German police
                            Italian organization
                            Swiss lovers                                                
  After 3 days I understand the dig about English food(and this from our waitress!).  Sassy had a tomato basil soup today in Cambridge and if you were blindfolded and tasted it you would not be able to tell what on earth it was except warm.  We now suspicion that the general lack of overweight English compared to Americans must be the food.

Cambridge

"Oh the humanity!" First sight stepping out of the train station...student bikes.

Punting on the canal behind the colleges

                                        

Cambridge was like China today. At least 1/2 the heads were Asian and most of them were school age.  This one was punting a boat and fell in.

                             

"Chariots of Fire"...cool.

                                 

The members of Pink Floyd first met here.

Evening at the pub

                  Top Gear: Our street looks like the spot where they park the "hot" cars @ Trump Nat.

                                       Kate Heidecker's place.

                              Sassy with a pint. (Naturally..I had to help her finish it)

                                      Obligatory food pic ala B@B

 Drunken Italians outside our window at the pub. The guy on the left was demonstrating his "stupid-human-trick" of making a fist and having his pinky finger stick up like he was gripping a tiny banana. The guy in grey was trying to copy him.  I tapped on the window and demonstrated the, "removable index finger". The reaction was priceless. The grey shirted fellow looked at me in mock disgust and showed me, "indeed, we all know this trick" and demonstrated he could do it. A short while later the girl sitting behind the beer wrapped on the window and demonstrated an Italian gesture of all the fingertips together which I looked up to mean, "you fool" (nice girl). I returned the gesture. She was pretty far gone.

Our waitress was from Brisbane, Australia. She had spent a year in Inverloch!

                                         Speakers Corner...wack-jobs!  The most entertaining guy
                                         was the homeless Englishman w/beer at 10:00.

                                      Will...guitar smashed by Pete Townsend when your father was 8.

                                Costume worm by Mick Jagger for a concert.  Just a wee lad w/cod piece.

                                                  My muse standing in front of a mews

                                        Crow toast on our roof-top garden  (I have no pants on)

The crow have landed

Sassy was pretty sick for the flight and our first 1/2 day. She took a long nap, medicine, and made a miraculous recovery. We then took a bike ride through Hyde Park. Princess Di palace. Shots of our room, view and terrace. Nice place. There was a wireless router but it is on-the-blink, so we signed up for "BTFon", which is wifi from just about everywhere so we can then use our phones anywhere.  Headed to "speakers corner".

To London and Beyond