london

we were in london for a few days staying with a friend of diana's from school, now working in zaha hadid's weirdly sprawling complex that used to be a victorian school or something to that effect... when we arrived in london, we had no way to contact the people we were staying with (johnny, jolanta, melodie, thanks!) and ended up storing our luggage at king's cross and wandering about london. we bought a cheap map of london while buying tickets for the tube which had some landmarks on it, one of them being the marx memorial library (karl, not groucho), so we immediately set out to find this bastion of communist critique. after about 45 minutes of pointless searching, we were about to give up when i walked down a street and ran into zaha hadid's office! melodie was there, we got keys to the apt and were vagrants no more.
the rest of london was spent riding bikes, looking for bookstores, fighting jetlag, seeing the tate, trying to go to a marxism 2006 conference that cost 16 pounds a day! (needless to say, we left), looking at the not-open serpentine pavilion and spying on Rem (we saw him hurrying in to the swanky invite only opening), and sleeping in various parks, squares and tube stations. sweet. on to madrid......