Picture this, you are minding your own business as a tourist on the streets London when suddenly and without warning the crowd around you stops moving, freezing in place.

The day London froze. Inspired by Improv Everywhere and made a reality by 100’s of volunteers. At exactly 3:30pm on a secret cue, almost everyone in the square froze. The few bewildered tourists didn’t know what was happening. For 5 minutes the participants held their positions, and then magically everyone unfroze.

In a scene right out of the movie The Terminal a man has been living in one of the London airports. Unlike the movies, this story does not, at least not yet, have a happy ending.

A homeless chef was locked up today after making Gatwick airport his home for THREE years.

“Cheeky” Anthony Delaney ate, showered and slept at the busy airport, brushing off security staff who stopped him more then 30 times.

He told his lawyers he was happier staying there because he was “clean, dry and warm”.

In fact he rarely left the busy south terminal, popping out only occasionally to collect his Jobseeker’s Allowance, the court was told.

In scenes reminiscent of the Steven Spielberg movie The Terminal, Delaney passed his days watching holidaymakers and airline staff going about their business.

A court was told he did not suffer mental health problems, was neither a drug nor alcohol addict, and did not cause “a stink”.

What’s the best way to get from England to Australia? Most people would say flying would be the only reasonable option, but this video is about a couple who defined “best way” as the most sustainable way and decided to bike the distance.

Bike 2 Oz is a video series about the young couple who successfully cycled the 17,000Km from Oxford (UK) to Sydney (Australia). Kevin and Lowanna filmed their entire cycle adventure across the UK, Europe, Pakistan, India, Iran, Malaysia and Australia.

The site Macenstein had an article about a UK hotel that is adding an iMac to each hotel room:

Hotel chain City Inn has decided to put a brand new iMac in every room in its London and Manchester hotels.

According to Macworld UK, City Inn has partnered with software company DirectStreams which developed a system to allow guests to use the iMac as a TV, radio, DVD and CD player, as well as allow for full access to the iLife suite, Office apps, and the internet.

What’s really cool here is that through the use of Faronic’s Deep Freeze software, no data is recorded on the iMac’s hard drive, and the systems are returned to their default state each day (remind me I want to install that on a few friend’s systems this coming April 1st). This means people need not worry about the security risks normally associated with shared environment computers. It also means you should pack a USB thumb drive if you are planning to write any reports on the road and don’t want them to mysteriously disappear in the morning.

So how do I get my podcasts loaded on each of their computers I wonder…. hmmmmm

We have started to plan a trip to Europe in May. The only definite part of the trip is that we are flying through London so my thought have started to turn to London, especially when I saw this wonderful video about the Tower Bridge in London. Ah London. My family went to London shortly after the birth of my son, when he was about 15 months old, and my wife was very pregnant with our daughter.

My wife remembers feeding my son on the steps of St Paul’s cathedral thinking “this is what I would be doing if I was at home… but… I’m in London!”. Ah London.

P.S. Let meknow if you would be interested in an Amateur Traveler London Meetup May 18th or 19th.

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