Only another hour and a half more to kill. I’m glad they have wifi here. Protip for travelers… Get some kind of VPN (virtual private network) with encryption, that way if you’re using public wifi people can’t sniff your traffic… Which is incredibly easy, by the way. You can find free ones pretty easily via google, I have a paid one from my usenet provider.
Anyways… Yesterday in London I checked out Greenwich. Unfortunately there was a lot of construction and fences put up for the Olympics. In that area they’ll be doing the pentathlon and equestrian races, kinda killed some nice photography options, I went to the maritime museum and the royal observatory, both of which were pretty cool. Also checked out a brewery which my crashpadder host had recommended for me.
Final picture count is around 950 I think. Will post them when I get home to my Flickr account… and a few choice ones to Facebook.
I had a few general observations over the course of the trip, but I can’t remember most of them. The burner phone was awesome, but it would’ve been way more useful to have a smartphone with maps. That was what I missed the most… Not the Internet but just having a map and search function to find places easily. To overcome this, I had to do a lot of day planning. I would look up the general area I was going to and would take a screenshot to store on my iPhone. That way, I could pull up the pictures as I went around. A bit crude but it worked.
I know I said I was going to… But I really didn’t practice my English accent here much. I did kinda naturally change the way I said some things… Changing the tone slightly but still saying it the American way, if that makes sense.
Good trip though, a little long, but that’s fine by me. Tomorrow morning I leave my apartment around 5:00 AM to go up to New York via train to my friends wedding that I’m in. I’m finally home on Saturday night for two weeks before I go off to training. I think right now I stand at I’ll be home for 2 weeks, gone for 2, back for 1, gone for 2, back for around 2.5-3.5, and gone for 1.5 (vacation!/Oktoberfest)… Then back for good!
Cheers
