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Tuesday 20-JULY-2010 London

Well today has been another big day.  We started by doing a 4hr tour with the Fat Tyre Bike Tours.  Basically rode past various monuments and palaces.  In the middle we stopped at an English Pub for lunch.  This was the first time this particular pub had catered for the tour and I suspecyt that Mr Ramsay was needed because the food took forever.  Sat and chatted with a Kiwi and several Americans.  Had a Pommie beer.  Hmm OK I guess.  It was called "London Pride".

Now speaking of pride, we should point out that we are staying in Soho.  We are about 50m from china town.  Opposite us is a 4 story gay night club. Every second night club seems to be gay and one of the wifi SSIDs visible here is "Gay Office".  As I write this it is 11:30.  Way past my bed time but the street outside is alive with people.

Back to the tour and we rode past the Australian War memorial amongst other monuments.  The final memorial was the one to Princess Dianna.  This is basically a large sculptured concrete water course filled with fast flowing water and children.  A very alive memorial and a very appropriate memorial to a wonderful person.  Also on the tour we had passed Buckingham palace and observed various well dressed soldiers on horsback riding off.  Tomorrow we hope to see the entire changing of the guard thing. 

Continuing with the bicycle theme, Megan and I went to see the Queen musical "We will rock you".  The kids stayed home alone and we had a night together.  A very impressive show.  Amazing integration of multimedia and live action. A bit wierd in that the story line is basically a psudo religeous theme worshiping the god of rock.