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		<title>Hello From London!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts on the way over:

US Airways website is S-L-O-W.  Nice, but man, it&#8217;s slow.
Their inflight entertainment system, in a word, sucks.  It runs Windows too &#8211; I got to stare at a blue screen of death for roughly 4 hours, after they shut down and rebooted the entire system three times.

Some thoughts from our [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some thoughts on the way over:</p>
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<li>US Airways website is S-L-O-W.  Nice, but man, it&#8217;s slow.</li>
<li>Their inflight entertainment system, in a word, sucks.  It runs Windows too &#8211; I got to stare at a blue screen of death for roughly 4 hours, after they shut down and rebooted the entire system three times.</li>
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<p>Some thoughts from our time so far:</p>
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<li>The weak dollar sucks.  It was like a hundred bucks to take the nice train from Gatwick to Victoria station.</li>
<li>London still has phone booths, everywhere.  It&#8217;s really odd seeing them, as I can&#8217;t remember the last time I&#8217;ve seen one in the US</li>
<li>Sara doesn&#8217;t do very well with jetlag.  Especially when she has a cold.</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t do very well in the cold.</li>
<li>In England, bacon is &#8220;streaky bacon&#8221;.  Bacon in England is like ham or something.  I liked it, Sara says &#8220;gross&#8221;.</li>
<li>If you ask what black pudding is, they&#8217;ll tell you, and then they&#8217;ll give you a free sample, which you then have to try.  I&#8217;ve had worse.</li>
<li>Harrods is nuts &#8211; total pandemonium.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t let your Original Bus Tour pass expire at the end of a day when you&#8217;re cold, it&#8217;s dark, and you&#8217;re trying to get somewhere.</li>
<li>My feet are killing me.</li>
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<p>Some pictures:</p>

<a href='http://www.peebs.org/2010/01/hello-from-london/img_3296-3/' title='IMG_3296'><img width="112" height="150" src="http://www.peebs.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_32961.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Harrods at Dusk" title="IMG_3296" /></a>
<a href='http://www.peebs.org/2010/01/hello-from-london/img_3880-2/' title='IMG_3880'><img width="99" height="150" src="http://www.peebs.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_38801.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Borough Market" title="IMG_3880" /></a>
<a href='http://www.peebs.org/2010/01/hello-from-london/img_3940/' title='IMG_3940'><img width="150" height="99" src="http://www.peebs.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_3940.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Tower Bridge" title="IMG_3940" /></a>
<a href='http://www.peebs.org/2010/01/hello-from-london/img_3968-2/' title='IMG_3968'><img width="99" height="150" src="http://www.peebs.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_39681.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="The London Eye" title="IMG_3968" /></a>
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