“London”

MODERN DAY NOTE: Wi-Fi ? [YAWN]

Dear all,
Vicky & I are in London. I am sitting in Cafe Nero near Picadilly Circus sipping a latte and surfing the Internet (on my own laptop, sans cables) via Surf & Sip Wi-Fi ! This is definitely cool! We will be here for a week so I got a seven day membership.

We are staying at the Hotel Intercontinental in Hyde Park – across from Buckingham Palace. Last night we ate at a pretty cool Japanese restaurant – Nobu – which seems to be a hotspot with the trendy crowd. In classic Griswald style, Vicky was the only person in the restaurant stumbling with her chopsticks and I was busy spilling wasabi sauce all over myself.., As Vicky says, the intimidation factor is only half-fold: at least here we can speak the language fluently.

Weather in London was rainy last night but the sun is trying to sneak out this morning. There is a huge Gay Pride rally in Hyde Park this weekend. When the taxi driver told us, I wanted to say, “30,000 PEOPLE! WHERE are they all coming from? THE CLOSET?”

As soon as I download my email, I am headed back to the hotel and we will go to the Tate Modem to look at art work.

Well, Honey Bunny wants her Atkins bacon & eggs, so I need to rush back before hotel breakfast cuts off…

Ciao,
Robert

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Published:: July 27, 2003 / 5:30 am

Category:: London, Travel

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“If I’m not painting, I’m typing.”

I began writing to combat creative block. It worked. What started as morning journals later developed into a secondary means of self-expression. Most of these selected writings were inspired by some event (usually humorous) during our travels abroad. Most are taken from emails I sent out frequently to a small audience (or, “fan base”, as I like to think.) These were not intended to be “serious” works; most were intended as a sort of log of our “adventures” and a means of keeping up with friends and family.

Many of these entries fall off the WordPress map as they go back a little further in time. I posted them with their original dates when I re-posted to WordPress, so they will not all show up in the archives’ listings but if you browse the categories, they are linkable by topic.

You may wonder about the frequent reference to the name, ‘Griswald’; this is the name Vicky & I jokingly gave ourselves as sort of ambassadors representing the notion of bumbling, culturally devoid, fashionly clueless, Americans in a foreign country.

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