First day in London for Tim

River Thames

 My day was a little different from Libby's. We had breakfast together, but then I went with Ruud on to the Queen Elizabeth II Convention Center, where we checked in and got our badges.

From there we kept walking. After all, we had a lot to talk over and we were close to some of the major attractions.

Along the way, we saw how close we were to the London Eye, and decided we could talk over our content at altitude just as well as we could at ground level inside conventional walls.

We saw the river Thames from a new perspective.

The Eye

Ruud and Myself, working hard at altitude.

The eye is higher than it might seem, and gives a wonderful view of the city. All of the pictures in this post are from (or near) the eye.

 I found the structure of the eye fairly fascinating, as you look at the center from the perspective of the bubbles. 

Flag Flying over the old City

One Rather Iconic Clock

Some "conventional' London architecture and double-deckers.

Afterward, Ruud and I stopped and had a beverage and a long talk (and filled in a lot of index cards with ideas) as we were distilling our thoughts for Thursday's talk. I am expecting the best of our ideas to end up in the talk, and we're winnowing down all the content that we'd originally intended.

Right now we have a good hook to hang the rest of the talk on, so I'm expecting good things to happen for us tomorrow as we (between sessions) finish fleshing it out.

We ended the day with Fish-n-Chips and dessert at the Blue Boar, a pub just down the road. It was as good as you might expect it to be. Dessert was sticky toffee.

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