Werewolf of Denver (In London): Just Touchdown in London

Well hello there,

I arrived in London on August 30th, and it has been almost non-stop since I have gotten here. The time difference is five hours from eastern time, and seven hours from mountain time. I essentially lost an entire day to traveling because my flight from Calgary was eight and half hours. Thus far it has been pretty surreal for multiple reasons. First, I live in a place called kensington which is the richest part in not just London but the entire UK. There are some of the most expensive flats here in the entire world. A couple of blocks down from me there is a flat worth a 110 million pounds. It doesn't even have a kitchen! This is the rich of the rich or how people say it here the "'posh' of the 'posh'". It is absurd. The cars on my blocks are cars that I can only dream of buying. There are Beamer, Benz, Bentley's, Rolls Royce, Porsche, Ferrari's, etc. I may just spend a day taking pictures of all these cars so people can understand this neighborhood. Essentially I will never live in a place like this again, unless somehow I am a billionaire. A picture of the 110 million pound price flat is below:

This is the block that I live on!

Everywhere I have been so far in London is gorgeous and clean. All the edifices on the building are beautiful s and each one is different. I will try and post several picture to show everything that I mean. Everyone on the trip has been very outgoing and nice so far. It is definitely an adjustment get use to all of the british laws. The most obvious is driving. Streets are narrower and they drive going the opposite direction, which most people know so I won't elaborate. But what is different is that pedestrians don't have the right-a-way. So if your not careful you can easily get hit. The other day I almost got ran over by a bicyclist! Luckily, that didn't happen. On some streets they paint signs on which direction to look. This is clearly put here for tourist like me.

Some other laws is that you can't carry a taser, pepper spray, or anything pointy. Taser and pepper sprays are considered to be firearms and if you have anything pointy then police can arrest you. They I.D. you here for cutler, yes that includes plastic knives.

The tube (London's subway), is the cleanest subway system that I have ever seen. Even when it is packed in the tube people don't push here. It is very "proper." The dogs are some the tamest that I have ever been around. Everything is small here, really everything is just oversized in america. Going to pubs are amazing. We went to a more suburban part of london, called Richmond and we were able to drink outside along the thames river, which is pronounced timms. It runs through central London. It was one of the best views I have ever seen. I wish I could have taken a picture of it. I will have to go back.

This is all I can think of for now. Here are some more pictures from the bus tour. Very touristy stuff.