Back on the blogging wagon

Hello Blogspot, so nice to see you again. Didn't think I was going to blog this trip, but I hate spamming people's inboxes so here we go. However, the thing I DO love about mass emails are all the responses you get back from people, so please please please drop me a line or comment at the bottom of these posts and I will stay in touch.

First stop of the trip = London to see Pam! (and to see London - never been here before. Nope, I did not fly through London on the way to Delhi a few years back; I flew Russian Aeroflot through Moscow. Oh Aeroflot.) London is fantastic. Exploring London with Pam is even better. Here is a taste of what we've been up to...

- Tube rides and city wandering (my bike is sadly still boxed up, waiting to fly to Prague, so for now everything's by foot and Tube)
- Shopping (from discount store Primark, to window shopping on Regent St, to exploring Camden Market, to costume stores near Piccadilly Circus. And no, Piccadilly Circus is not, like I had expected, a circus. Yep, I'm naive.)
- Pints at many an English pub
- Awesome live music - Laura Marling (an 18-year-old prodigy, think Joni Mitchell meets Feist); then a wicked blues bar in Soho
- High school reunions - so many NTers in London! Hooray!
- Stroll on Hamstead Heath
- Afternoon at Hampton Court Palace - so many fancy rooms... so many fancy tapestries... head spinning....
- Tate Modern gallery
- "Fancy Dress" Party at Laura's! (AKA costume party) Theme was "anything that starts with P" so we went as Pippi Longstocking and a Pinata, i.e. "wear a crazy sombrero and throw candy at people when they hit you with a stick." Much ridiculousness.

Enjoy the photos! I'm loving this blogging thing again.