Clothes are clean

ciao,

so, the clothes are clean and i'm in london. its kind of strange. i left sardegna, an island in the Mediterranean and it was freezing cold, pouring rain, and not one bit of sunlight. to arrive in london with sunshine and blue sky. yeah, its still pretty dang cold, but in the sun it feels good enough.

i'm not exactly sure what kind of soap i used for my clothes (i found a box of something in the bathroom in the hostel), but there were bubbles in the machine so i think thats a good sign. i figure soap is soap and hopefully i won't get a rash.

my brother comes in a few hours!! i think he's going to be all messed up with the time changes and flying all day. he arrives pretty late at night so hopefully he'll be tired and can get hooked up with england time quickly.

tomorrow we fly to iceland. i was happy to see the sunrises here sometime around 7:30-8ish. thats good news because hopefully there will be some amount of sunlight in iceland. the good thing is that with each day, the daylight will get longer...and thats better. (weather permitting)

its always a shock to go from a not-so-commercialized place to an over-commercialized place (like fiji to sydney). you can always tell by how many signs there are on the road--and on everything that has enough space for an advertisement. there were about 4 huge signs on each side of the road in the space of about 50 meters saying there was a camera that would catch speeders...and thats when a car flew by our bus to get its picture taken. i think there's just so many signs that people don't pay attention to anything. i think i'm more of a fan of the less sign-age lifestyle.

one of the good things about london is that i can get 24 hours of internet for less than the price of one hour in sardegna. i would give that up though if everyone spoke italian here. i miss it (and i can't stop saying si' for yes).

have a good day
your friend

chad