London

Though I am making this post way after my trip, I wanted to capture a brief post on my London experience.  We spent two days in London to visit with our client, debrief the trip to Africa and our work for him, and also hang out for a day or so to see the sights.

The first day, Friday, was mostly spent recovering from the long trip and going over our project.  In the evening, we did go out for a nice dinner before hitting the sack.  It gave us a good chance to get to know our client and his girlfriend during the stay, which was nice, since it has been all business up until this point.

Saturday, Santiago and I took off for the day to try to see some sights around London, but we didn't actually try that hard.  We were mostly wandering, and we went to the National Gallery, had some lunch by Westminster Abbey, and walked along the river towards the Tate Modern, where we stayed outside for a long time to watch the street entertainers.  One of them was a master bubbler, or simply a guy that blew soap bubbles to entertain the kids.  He was very much like the pied piper, but wielded a soap bubble wand rather than a pipe.  In the evening, we played some ping pong and I grabbed some dinner with Henri and his girlfriend before going to bed.  I skipped out on the Agentinian tango night that Santiago found, but that would have kept me up until 3 am.

It was very nice to be back in a modern society after a 3 week run in the rough.