After much not-getting-them-done, I’ve finally got caught up on photos up through the Continental part of my trip, that is to say, Paris and Bruges are now processed.

I haven’t taken many photos in England yet, though I have a couple from Oxford and my first London trip–bloody weather. Look forward to those, more from London, and Toulouse, Ax, and the Tour. And anything else I happen to end up doing.

Remember that if you’ve missed anything, you can get all my photos from the summer conveniently organized by city from my gallery. Soon, I will start going through and labeling the photos, but these things take time, y’know.

I’m going to France in a little over a week now to see the Tour de France, and perhaps Lance kicking butt on the climbing finish to Ax-3-Domaines. Tickets are booked on EasyJet for Toulouse & back on the 14th and 17th. And the SNCF train to Ax-Les-Thermes from there late on the 15th. I’ll be camping the night before and after the 14th stage on the road from Ax-Les-Thermes to Ax-3-Domaines, about 10k up the mountain. The preceeding Friday I’ll spend in Toulouse. I wanted to visit Airbus but the tour company is only doing tours in French on the day that I am there so besides the standard looking around I’ll probably head to the Cité de l’Espace, which is a sort of space-education-museum-thing. They have an Ariane 5 outside so it can’t be all bad.

Last Saturday I daytripped London to visit a few things that I probably wouldn’t get to see (or see enough of) with other people. Went to the Cabinet War Rooms/Churchill Museum and spent nearly four hours at the Imperial War Museum, which combined took care of any WWII-history hankerings I’ve been having. I also got to catch part of the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham (before I got bored), walked across London Bridge so I could look at the much more famous Tower Bridge, visited Trafalgar Square, and went to Hamley’s, the world’s largest toy store. It looks like I’ll be doing a full weekend in London this weekend with a few friends, but since we’re driving in each day because it’s cheaper than booking rooms in London I might do a daytrip or two by rail, depending on how long it takes me to see what I want to see in London.

Classes are fine. Lots of reading for history (surprise) and the primary textbook is somewhat…convoluted…but I’m getting through it. The econ class has pretty interesting material. I know know one of the ways to make money in the foreign exchange market (taking advantage of currency price differentials in different markets), though we haven’t covered the more complicated stuff yet, except for a brief mention of Soros’ (in)famous pound bet.

Electrical outlets in Great Britain have not given me any trouble whatsoever.