Hello everybody. We’re in Warrington in North England. For our last night in London, we went to a very local pub, called the New Inn. Maya’s cousin used to play guitar there with a bunch of old English fellows that play old standards in an interactive, karaoke-like fashion (that is, old British guys come up and sing Elvis songs and the crowd sings along). Then we walked through St. John’s Woods to Abbey Road, looked in the window of the Abbey Road Studios, took a couple of photos and went home. We packed and went early to bed for the first time during our stay in London.

We rose early and went to the bus (coach) station and rode a cramped 5+ hours to Warrington, where we met our good friend Nina, and her sis Lucy, who then brought us to her Dad’s house and has made us quite at home. Right now she and Maya are cooking Pad Thai and I’m writing this journal entry and watching TV (I just learned all about the popular soap opera, EastEnders).

My mobile internet seems to work pretty well, but slowly, so I won’t be uploading as many or as large of pictures, unless I can figure out how to transfer files from an internet cafe.

Our best wishes to everybody and special thanks to the Benz family for taking such good care of us while we were in town… We couldn’t have had a better time.