CityLurve: London (Redux)

home safe, with a riddle solved (see <http://simran.nomadlife.org/2007/04/where-would-you-go.aspx>), a new friend solidly in the kitty, a diary completed, and about half the monopoly board checked off.

london was amazing, and although i spent a lot of my time alone this trip -- and had a great time doing it -- due credit for a lot of the highlights must go to milan (<http://web.mac.com/msamani>), heather, and rishab (<http://rishab.nomadlife.org>).

heather, the quintessential wellesley woman, and my medievalist warwick castle companion: i had a fabulous time, trebuchet and train rides and long walks and all. i hope we can be companions on more such adventures!

rish... "bhai" to me too, although in a different way. thanks for letting me crash!

and milan. how can i thank you enough? right from waiting for me at the airport to riding the london eye with me to our fabulous avenue q experience to lip-smackingly good dinners at ping pong and crazy bear to zooming around central london -- st. katherine docks, st. paul's, the millennium bridge, fly one, hammersmith -- all day and all night (in the beemer, on the underground, and on foot) to the seamless laundry ka intezaam at 1 pickwick place to listening to me rattle on about grad school to explaining the origins of the anglican church and the congestion charge to co-opting vishwa's bed for me to contemplating smuggling me across the french border to offering me a place to stay "when you come here for penn-in-london [4 years from now]"... you are a gem.

my visa is valid until 2010. mel and michael will be there in the fall, too. more more more!

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update, wednesday, june 20, 2007:

check this out: <http://www.animalsontheunderground.com>

most versatile subway system ever!