6:45 am London Time... Young Hoog, the Shoog, Rog, T-Money, or simply Tom and myself of course roll up dead to the UK customs border where we stand in a huge line watching people with UK passports breeze by us rentering their home country.
Well I was nevous to say the least so I let Hoog talk as much as possible... after showing a Eurail pass and chatting up the customs lady we were in!
Then came the limo service... and right as we pulled out I remember my dad discussing how crazy rotaries are in the UK since everyone drives on the opposite side of the road.
The drive was right thru the town west to our flat in the east... we saw it all on the drive, the palace, the guard changing, the huge churchs and museums, the tower and I knew we were close when we reached the financial district. It's like a campus of men in suites and boy was I glad not to have bought that brown suite in Men's Wear house... it was a sea of blue, black and grey.
We checked into the flat sleepless but excited. See the pictures, has a million dollar view of the Thames and is well above what I was expecting. Its fit for royalty.
Matt Searby called around noon as we had just about settled in. So we caught a cab for 5 quid as they say here and we were at One America Square. It was surreal. We were in the middle of London's financial superstars. Once we got thru building secruity BMS was quite stunning inside. We checked in and before we knew it we were sitting down with Matt over lunch discussing the town and the weekend. Matt was nice enough to help us get Oyster Cards for travel as well as introduce us to some of the boys at the office whom we are spending time with. He took us to one glass office and before we knew it I was shaking hands with the top of the department, Hugo Crawley himself.
So far its all gone so fast but our first day was quite productive. Miss home a bit but excited to explore this rich city so its im off for a walk with Tom!
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