Having a Whale of A Time

RAYNERS LANE, PUBLIC LIBRARY: Welcome to London, the city Benjamin Disraeli called not a city, but a nation. And while I've only been here four days it's the kind of statement you'd have to agree with. I spent some time with Charlie Brown around his flat, including an all night welcome to London bender, and despite it's repuation for being an Antipodean ghetto, it seemed as multicultural a place as I've ever visited.

You all might have seen the news that a whale had found it's way up the Thames in search of a good curry and a night at the theatre. Well after the aforementioned welcome to London bender I set out to the Battersea Bridge in Chelsea to see said whale with Charlie and his housemate. Unfortunately we showed up fifteen minutes late. Ahab and his crew had already scooped the poor beast into the Pequod and ferried it down the river.

Yesterday we went to visit Stratford-Upon-Avon but only got as far as Milton Keynes. It's a lot harder to find your way out of town than you'd think.