Bloddy 'ell!

I'll let you guess where I am.

I'll give you a hint...

It's an island where the locals eat 'Fish n Chips' and they all drive on the wrong side of the road.

If you guess London, you're right. England is also an acceptible answer. I'm actually taking a bit of a detour from the beginning of yet another business trip to France. This time, though, I decided to wander outside French borders and head through the Channel Tunnel to a little island that we had a little war with back in the 1700s. I think that most people are over that little tiff by now, eh?

I got here in Friday afternoon, and have been having a great time wandering around the city, getting a little lost, and seeing a few theatre shows. Yes, it's spelled 'theatre' out here... I still think it's a little pretentious.

Unfortunately the love of my life (a.k.a. Janine) is stuck at home with no extra vacation time. She gets to walk the dog through the foot-plus of snow that dumped back on her side of the pond and go to work at a factory, while I get to wander around London-town drinking pints, seeing the locals (the 'bad teeth' thing is horrifically true)... and then eventually go to work at a French factory next week. But for now it's fun time!!

For your information, I've only had the following conversation once after getting to know some random friendly stranger (to my surprise):

Friendly Stranger: So, what's your name? Me: Austin. F.S.: Ahh... as in 'Austin Powers'? Me: Umm... *insert bad english accent* Yeah, baby! F.S.: *excited giggles*

So maybe the excited giggles didn't happen, but it went pretty much like the rest.

Posted by Austin at January 22, 2005 06:19 PM