015 - mon 15/05/2006 - london

tim (the other tim) got up before any of the rest of us did, and promptly caught a plane to - new york. he was heading over there on business for the rest of the week. sarah got up and went to work - i think we'd almost forgotten that people in the real world do that.

we slept in until like 1 pm. we were ready to take a break from our holiday, and have a day of rest and recovery. actually suz woke up feeling a bit sick, with a bit of a cold. after slowly getting ourselves together we went down to nearby canary wharf. tim had explained canary wharf to me the day before - its kind of the new (or relatively new) financial center of london, about 10 minutes east of central london. a lot of the banks and big business moved over there because of the restrictions about building skyscrapers in the city, and i guess also because of cheaper rent and land prices. it has a strange feel to it, as such a new development, populated almost exclusively by bankers, traders, professionals. walking along the thames towards canary wharf, we didn't see many families, young people, but a lot of suits, ipod-wearing joggers.

we grabbed a coffee. i embarrassed myself trying to pay for them. we found a supermarket and then went home to cook dinner for sarah. we drank some wine and chatted some more. another early night.