London

There are many ways to get from Wellington to Minneapolis, and Richard may have found the most disorienting of them all. Kristen had come back the week prior to feather the kohunga, and accompanied him onward to London for a conference presentation at the Narrative Medicine conference at Guy's Hospital. 

The usual sights were on the touristic menu, and we elected to pursue a "rise at noon" strategy to keep some semblance of U.S. time zone zeitgebbery. Anyway, there's plenty to do in London at 3 A.M.

Some odds and ends: Richard saw a fox in the Guy's/King's College courtyard (in the heart of London, metres from London Bridge!) We saw Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing in Piccadilly as well as Noel Coward's Private Lives in the West End. Also had a fantastic Chinese dinner at the (literally and figuratively) hard to get into Four Seasons.

We also got the chance to head a bit out of the City to see Kew gardens and also visit some friends, Nick and Libby Hipkins, who we first met back in Wellington.



Not bad for a business trip, and we're certainly looking forward to coming back.