News From Britain

This is just a quick update, since I haven't had time to properly collect my thoughts and reflections - my threflectioughts if you will. I made it from Lisbon to London just fine, after an exhausting 24-hour period without sleep, and successfully rendezvoused with my friend Chelsea. This is the first time she's ever been out of North America, so I have the obligation of warning her of all the perils of European indecency, like driving small cars and closing stores on Sundays. Quite unusual. So far, we've seen the British Museum - part of it, but we're going back -, the Tate Modern, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Harrod's, and today we're off to the Imperial War Museum, maybe back to the British Museum, and then tonight, we're going to see the London Philharmonic! So, more details later. Tally-ho!

P.S., this we overheard on the street last night -

British Woman, arguing with some guy: "I don't care! My mink is worth more than her entire spandex wardrobe!"

Huh?