Well I'm here, and I'm mostly awake. I'm convinced my hektek schedule before my departure was actually a huge boon in that i seem to magically already be more or less on UK time. The entire 24 hours of transit just completly messed up my clock and sleep patterns, and the 3 hours of sleep i got before i left meant that i wasn't so tired that i had to sleep, but was tired enough that i could sleep if i wanted to. Once I hit KL I swapped my ipod over to UK time and used that as a guide for when to sleep on the plane.

Arrived at heathrow at 6am. Clearing customs was amazingly simple. Someone had warned me that I might have problems since I had no ticket out of the UK, so I was prepared for touble. But they seemed happy when i told them I still held a job in Australia.

Caught the underground to hammersmith and dumped my luggage and began my exploration.

Hammersmith was dead, not a person to be seen. I decided to make for the thames and had a nice morning walk along the river for a good hour to Putney. After much random walking and a truely awful coffee I happened across the Brompton Cemetary. One thing I love is exploring old overgrown cemetrys, see the photostream above for some of the photos I took there. I may post even more later if i find a cafe that has basic photo editing capabilities.

After being chased by squirrels out of the cemetry, i caught the train into the inner city. I had no idea but apparently the Tour de France actually starts in London to some degree and with my wonderings I accidently found myself on the inside of their warm up track kind of stuck watching the parade. It was good fun, but was a real maze to get out of it. After that I checked in properly, had my first shower in god knows how long (and for the record I even shaved - not sure how long this habbit will last) and now here i am catching up on being a geek.

I feel quite comfortable in London in a lot of ways, It may have something to do with having spent almost all my life living in cities with a dirty river running through the middle of it (Wellington being the only exception). Having mastered the trains in Sydney and Melbourne the underground also seems pretty managable. I guess what confuses me is that I'm yet to find the CBD. All my explorings so far have either found the historicalish precincts or sururbs, no congregation of towering office blocks. Also need to find a real coffee.