3 Pints, a crash and Peckham

What a weekend!

I caught up with Mignot on Friday night, and 1 pint turned into 3 (as expected), which is fine for some one that catches a tube home. Me on the other hand, road home, most of the way. Let's just say there was a little altercation with a VW Golf, in which I ended up on their bonnet in the middle of an intersection on Portland Road. They paused, long enough for me to get off their bonnet, however failed to even wind the window down to see if I was alright. Londoner's!

For the record, I had the right of way, but they were bigger, and probably had consumed more than my 3 pints. Anyway, nothing broken, sore elbow and I live to fight another day!

Spent Saturday morning changing our tires over on the good bikes, as we decided it was a good idea to stretch their legs, and get used to having to lock up expensive toys on the streets of London. We were supposed to be meeting some people that Bridgette studies with at Richmond Park in the west. Somehow we read the AtoZ index wrong and marked our map in completely the wrong area. Let's just say that we ended up in Peckham, a good 20 Kms from the park that we were supposed to be at.

For those of you who don't know about Peckham, if we had of stopped at the lights for more than 20 seconds, someone would have come along and politely tried to remove our wheels, with us still on the bike. They do have a nice Library there, which I'll go back and see when I'm not in so much of a hurry.

Today we rode to Greenwich via the canals, which was very pleasant and not in anyway remotely dangerous! We went to the observatory and did the whole "standing in two time zones thing". Bit touristy, but interesting none the less.

Hopefully a good week is in store for us, no doubt we will let you know.

Pete