I had barely any sleep and I don’t seem to be making progress. I planned to leave the party earlier tonight. It was a low-key Sunday event, so it was expected. But I was having such a heavenly time that I lost track of how late it was. The people I wanted to carpool with weren’t interested in proper bedtimes. I reached the underground just as it shut down. Luckily I discovered that London has late night buses to compensate. There was one nearby that would take me to the same tube stop. Unluckily that took an hour. I did get to sit at the front of the top level of a double decker bus.
I went downtown (nebulous as that is) yesterday afternoon) in search of an internet café. I popped into interesting stores too. I saw a copy of season two of “The IT crowd” for sale. The first episode of that season aired right before I left on this vacation. I would have gotten it right there, but I’m pretty sure Europe DVDs don’t play well with North American players.
I bit the bullet and purchased Portugal tickets. It gives me a sense of relief to have a plan again. I wasn’t able to get them as cheaply as I had heard. But I decided to ignore the expense and have fun. (Like the Contiki tour guide said: “A vacation is a very poor investment.”)
Even though I would like to go home and fool around on the computer.
Some new friends had said they were going to Camden market. I HAD to do internet work so I couldn’t go with them. I popped by afterwards; A nice area with a lot of goth stores. There are two sets of people there, actual goths and tourists taking pictures. I never found my friends, but I did see their pictures later and it looks like they knew what to do there.