Jolly old London!

Indeed, I have to agree with Euan and say I throughly enjoyed Malaysia. I will be back at some point in time and see more of the country.

In London we stayed at the Ace Hotel. Now, I am not sure I would call it ace but it was really clean, fresh and comfortable despite having a room that Euan could touch each wall at the same time and sleeping in bunks. At London prices that was fine with me. We fell into bed sometime around 4am according to our body clock so it doesn't come as a great surprise that a few days later I was still feeling rather worse for wear.

The next day was a long one. It started out with a bit of sight seeing and, shockingly, Euan even did some clothes shopping much to my delight. Not cheap clothes shopping either, he spent more in pounds than he ordinarily would in dollars on a jacket. It's a really nice black Rohan assignment jacket that I hope will replace wooley for some of the time. Wooley is the green jacket that Euan loves (more than me I think sometimes!).

We went on one of the London Walks, Eccentric London. I highly recommend going on a couple of these if you're in London, very entertaining and good value. Two hours flew by and next thing we knew it was time for lunch.

On recommendation from our guide we went to Abactus where we had a delicious three course set lunch. Beautiful food. We sat at the bar because they were so busy and giggled at the very proper english blokes sitting next to us who were prattling on about all things english.

Then we headed to Trafalgar Square for the Tour de France sign on. We got there an hour and a half before the start and it was already packed. Fortunately we got chatting to an english couple Paul and Tracy and that helped the time go more quickly as the "entertainment" while we waited was a DJ who thought he was the bee's knees however I didn't see too many people in the crowd dancing. Once the main event started there was a good atmosphere, lots of flag waving and watching the riders wheel on was awesome.

It was a long day on the feet though and we both felt like our feet were on fire and my back was aching. leaving Trafalgar Square afterwards there were people everywhere! the Friday night reveller's were out in full force.