London Ninja

I don’t own a bicycle. And if I did, I probably wouldn’t ride it in London since they drive on the wrong side of the road here. It gets pretty hectic to the point where I always look at the writing on the road that says “Look Right” or “Look Left”. If there is nothing on the road, I look Left, then Right, then Left, then Right again. Then I walk slowly until I see a car coming. I then stop in the middle of the road long enough where I get nervous and then I run right back to where I came from until the light turns green. Sorta like Frogger jumping on the wrong log…cept I make it look a lot better than that damn frog. Oh, and I also knit in my spare time. Where was I?

So this weekend, there was all kinds of stuff going on in London including Live Earth and Wimbledon, which is why I consider London to be one of the top 5 cities in the world (New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo). I’m not sure if it beats those other places but it is truly world class. One of the events that was happening in Hyde Park, which is right next to my hotel.

More than one million people lined the route of the Tour de France as it started in England for the first time in its 104-year history.

The coolest thing with being in London is that there seems to be an incessant number of activities always going on. I happened to be one of those million people that got to experience the event this last weekend. The following are some pics that I snapped…a couple of more in my Flickr Photostream.

Le Tour de France with all the promotional floats parading by….[Photographic panning effect]

Random Kid awaiting a stream of fast flying bikers

Lance Armstrong speeding by on his bike. Or maybe Floyd Landis…or maybe none of the above.

Everybody kicking it at Hyde Park watching the race on the big screen.

All in all the Tour de France was a pretty cool event. I’m not sure if I would pay money to see people riding bikes…unless I get a game of Frogger out of it somehow.