The Elderly- for real this time.

Sorry about the misleading subject line last time- my laptop battery was dying and Mike had borrowed my adaptor. You can see these signs all over my neighborhood:

Silly Brits.

The signs were designed by a child in the 80's and apparently all the elderly people in Britain hate the signs and want them redesigned. I think they're brilliant.

It's funny- I can't really believe I'm here yet. I don't really feel like I'm in a foreign country- I'm just very comfortable here. London as a city is unlike anything I've seen in America- mixed in with the new modern buildings are the old (London Tower) and even older (there are ruins of Roman walls in the area between Westminster and East London). You can be in the middle of something that is reminiscent of New York City and 10 minutes later be in a quiet residential street. I love it here. I don't feel like a tourist even though I am definitely one- I saw a bus full of bobbies today and couldn't have been more excited. Robin and I have a scheme to get a picture of some bobbies without them noticing.

The director of the center- Bill- takes groups of the willing on walks around different parts of London each week. Yesterday we went on what was supposed to be a three hour walk but ended up being four hours. We walked around the Westminster (Parliament, etc) area and over the Thames to South London where a lot of the theaters and music halls are. It was very informative, but exhausting.