Okay, here I am on the other side of the world and Im fully connected. And with an amount of ease and at prices which are astounding. First up: mobile phone We are in a 3-like country so international roaming rates are are a fraction of what they’d be in non 3-like countries. Also, for [...]
Hello Mr. Zimmer
Hello Mr. Zimmer, do you have a frame I could borrow? Sunday night in London. I should be out tripping the fight lantastic. But I am in my hotel room and I want to go to bed. I am tired. Star Trek 12 – So Very Tired kind of tired. I’ve had a look through [...]
48 Crash
Crash, crash, 48 crash…crash, crash…waaaaaaahhh…. Not the song. Me. When I first visited London I was in my early thirties. I had jetlag for a few days and then never looked back. I am no longer in my early 30s. Walking around London last night – Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road, Piccadilly Circus etc. – [...]
A bit of racism…welcome to London!
Overheard as we queued at passport control at Heathrow Airport: One passport officer to another (in disparinging tone: ‘Here comes another lot of bloody Koreans! What do you call them?’ 2nd passport officer: A swarm of Koreans?’ I also personally witnessed a poor Korean guy being grilled and verbally tortured by one of these passport [...]
You gotta have Seoul
As I write this I’m sitting on a plane that left Seoul, Korea about 8 hours ago heading for London, England. And there’s still over three hours to go . Thursday night was chaotic trying to pack and do ‘last minute’ stuff. I am still not over my illness of last week so I was [...]
