Getting connected is a blast

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 $5 a [...]

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 the free mags [...]

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. – I found the crowds and [...]

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 guys. The Korean [...]

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 knackered [...]