This was my only full day London. Woke up several times at night, and then at 4:oo am discovered it was quite light out. I assumed my watch had stopped, or somehow I had set it wrong, but apparently it just gets light early. At breakfast I sat with some young women from Singapore. I'm pretty sure the food was supposed to keep you from coming down the next morning... Set off for Sir John Soanes house, and, arriving early, I wandered the king's college area, very ...

Got in at noon their time which was 6 my time. I slept some on the plane, but after getting to the hotel (easily, except at first I thought the Brits didn't label their streets, a perverse quirk which didn't frustrate me too much because I spotted my hotel just about the same moment I started scratching my head--and, of course, they do have streets signs, they are just up on the buildings. After checking in and poking around a bit in the neighborhood, I collapsed...