Hi there!

I'm tooling around London this week, and naturally I'm keeping my eyes open
for Vanagons and other interesting vehicles.  The first cool car I spotted
was a Fiat Amigo.  It looks exactly like a Vanagon Westie, except it's 2/3
scale.  Very cute.  (I took a picture and will hopefully post it soon.)

I also saw a EuroVan flatbed pick-up.  Very strange.  It's a EuroVan
double-cab with a VERY long autocarrier back.  The back end is about 1.5
times the length of a normal EuroVan double-cab (I think there's a picture
of one of these on my web site.)

I had only two other van spottings.  The first VW van I saw here was a VW
Vanagon panel van, apparently used by a housepainter.  There were two huge
ladders strapped to the roof.  The second was a Vanagon high-top camper.  (I
didn't think to check the plates for country-of-origin.)

I'm having fun, but London is sooooo expensive.  Everything costs about the
same number of pounds as dollars, i.e., lunch is about �5-7.00.
Unfortunately, the exchange rate is about 1.65 US$ per �.  On the positive
side, everything here is incredibly charming.  It seems like every pub has a
story about a historical figure who used to have affairs in their keg cellar
or something.   London is very multicultural, and everyone speaks with a
british accent... africans, indians, japanese, which of course I think is
very sexy.

We spent one night watching this show called "Blind Date", which is like
"The Dating Game" but with a really nasty edge.  After the two folks go on a
date, they come back and get all nasty with one another.  One woman was
saying "I was all up for a snog, but he's a bit of a wet noodle."  He was
saying "She was so pushy and gobby.  I could hardly breath, let alone talk."
Nasty and fun to watch, sort of like when your neighbors have a brawl.

Coyote

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