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Date:       6/4/99

        It finally hit me today.  Went to sleep at 3:30 AM last night and awoke up at 5:30 AM and was never able to fall back to sleep.  Finally gave up at 11 and went to run.  Tried to get past Buckingham Palace but guard was changing with bands and horsemen and crowds so thick I couldn't do it.  Ran down so many side streets and about to give up when there I was in front of Westminster Abbey and Big Ben.  Not as big as I imagined it but very beautiful reminder I am really in London.

After run it was windy and cool, I felt lousy, wobbly and out of sorts and started sneezing.  Looked at several places for a capucchinno and finally settled on Biagio's on Picadilly when I heard every one inside speaking Italiano.  Went back to the room and collapsed for 3 hours.

Finally at 7:30 the guy from the cellphone rental shows up with my phone "all activated."  One small problem; they're all out of the small Nokia he showed me and they have to give me the larger one.  Any cheaper?  He's not sure.  As he's leaving I decide to ask him to wait until I try to make a call.  Doesn't work.  After 15 mins he gives up and leaves with the phone and profuse apologizes.  When I read the rate charges per call, I figured I just saved myself a great deal of money, but what a collassol waste of time.

We had a delightful dinner with John Eales' wife, Wendy, who recommended Cafe Milan on King's Road in Chelsea.  Very nice.

In AM go Waterloo station to catch Eurostar Chunnel train to Paris at 7:30 AM.  Supposed to take 3.5 hours (20 mins under the English Channel).

Cool here, hope Paris is warmer.

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