London

Amazing. They have water here, and food (though a little bit fattier than what I am used to), and even electricity. All those worries for nothing....

Yesterday I have seen London tower, a castle build on old roman walls. From there we took a boat to London-eye, which we didn't visit - preferring the more joyful graves in Wenstminster Abbey. I have learned that London City and Wenstminster City are 2 different cities within the same urban area, which we call London, and that the Big Ben, the Parliament as well as Buckingam Palace are all in Wenstminster and not in London city.

At night I called home, and I was asked.....yes darling, I miss you all already, we didn't see each other for about 12 hours.

Going out was easy. London is full of people, pubs, restaurants. You can drink whatever, wherever, so we ended up, unwillingly, into a Dutch-pub, where they served me a Leffe on a pint glass, with almost no foam on top! Those british know nothing about beer, even though the only thing they do at night is drinking.

In the rare occasions Daniele was not looking at women, we managed to have some conversation. He confessed me that he feels like being a number in his new job, and that London is not as exciting as a small village on the Mediterranean area. So he is slowly and painfully raising some money in the difficult attempt to come back to Sicily, and start a real life there, and for good.

Today is sunny here, and warm. We are going to play the tourists all day long.

-------------------------------------------------------------

The computer I am using is playing all mp3 and wma files accelerated, whatever players I use for the job. I have two suspicions: an analog one (being the computer a german one, I suspect a mismatch between the clock of the audio card and the supply voltage in UK) and a digital one (the mp3 codec is an old one, probably misinterpreting all new formats). But I couldn't solve the problem, yet.