Well, London is no more. I am pleased to report that for our last day, Celia and I were pleasantly surprised with the Big Smoke. We had a spot of afternoon tea (which in turn kept us up all night) and checked out the uber-cool Old Operating Theatre Museum. More on those lovely sites to come. But for now, I wanted to leave y’all with an ad that was all over the Underground (click for larger image):

I know the picture is not the best, but hopefully you can still see why this ad blew me away. If this ad were in the US, Dove wouldn’t sell one single bottle of this stuff because people would say these women were fat. Now, there’s certainly an assload of super-skinny Brits out there, but just the fact that popularly they seem to have such a more realistic idea of what women’s bodies ought to look like was amazing to me. I tended to think this whole “the anorexic look is cool” was a Western trend, not some peculiarly American thing. And it’s funny too since Americans are so much more obese than Europeans in general.

Anyway, just something to think about. That is, until the Germans do something to amaze and bewilder me…

I hope to post some highlights from the trip next week, but its slow going with only sporadic internet use and a bunch of studying to do. So far Munich is great. I really do enjoy the place. And those Döner kebaps. Mmm. And the chocolate here is way good too. Actually, all the food here is great. I’d say I’m going to come back twenty pounds heavier, but with all the walking we’ve been doing, I’m probably losing weight. A trip to Salzburg is in the works for the weekend. I’m pretty excited about that. Now if it would just get ein bisschen warmer, bitte.

Join the Freak Out Party and behold the
EuroTour Page!

This above link should work, but between the sketchiness of JavaScript and the half-dozen different browsers out there, I give you the full link, just in case:
http://www.cannibalsall.com/EuroTour/index.html

For the few folks that might still checkin on my site, I feel that you deserve some updates. I haven’t forgotten about you–quite the contrary. I’ve lots of picutres and stories that I’d like to post, but until the stupid Goethe Institute fixes its wireless network, I’m pretty helpless right now. So here I am, at an internet cafe, giving you this measly scrap of an update. Life is good. Food is good. And now I’m off to Berlin. Yippee.