Here I am! London, England, the capital of the great empire. Well, what remains of the once great empire. It's been pretty interesting.

We managed to reserve a hostel while still at the airport, which we made our way to via the London Tube (Subway). It's pretty decent, and the price isn't bad. Also quite close to everything. James and I went for a walk after we'd dropped our bags off, and were pleasantly surprised to find ourselves in front of Westminster Abbey, with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament right behind it - after about 10 minutes of somewhat aimless walking. James was astute enough to note early on that "the character of this city is such that it can't be seen from a plane or from a distance, you must be in the city to experience it." I quite agree, it reminds me a lot of Old Montreal actually, just instead of a portion of the city - it's the entire city (well, the entire city that we've witnessed, a fair amount - we've done a lot of walking today). On the other hand, it's also dissimilar to Old Montreal in that the buildings are a lot larger and usually more ornate. For example, Notre-Dame in Montreal is beautiful. Westminster Abbey is astounding. The Houses of Parliament are equally impressive - with the immense levels of detail upon the structures.

It was also noteworthy the complete lack of activity last night. It was hard to believe we were in the largest city in Europe and one of the largest in the World. 11pm and the downtown was absolutely dead. We decided that it must just be the area around our hostel, certainly places like Soho and Leicester Square would remain bumping at such an early time?

Anyhow, things are going well. London is interesting. We're currently doing a feasibility study on the option of renting a car tomorrow and making our way to Glasgow with that. We thought it would just provide a comfort zone for visting a few places that we wanted ourside London, as well the cost is tremendously low - right now chances are looking good!

I'll be back in soon to update again, its about 100% likely that I'll be in Glasgow when that happens. :D.

Peace.