In a Youth Hostel in Llangollen (Wales, the land of names starting with "ll") now. My Grand Tour of England and Wales is going rather well so far. Will be back in London on Tuesday or Wednesday night, in Singapore Saturday afternoon and the Middle of Nowhere (Sungei Gedong) on Sunday night.

The Internet is actually *fast*, and cheaper than the one supplied in the 3 other Youth Hostels I've been in so far with Internet Access, as it's supplied by a different cartel.

Damn camera ran out of batteries only 4 days after a full charge, and my spare non-rechargeables coincidentally went flat too. Jiggling with my brother in law's 2 spare batteries wasn't any help, so I lost some wonderful shots of the mountains, and of me and him in the middle of a stream.

Weather so far has been great - only drizzled on one day and really rained when we passed briefly through the Lake District and yesterday, our first day in Wales. Today was bright and sunny, giving us great views of Snowdonia, with the sheer mountains of slate and green valleys. Tis the kind of terrain that puts one in the mind of Middle Earth and similar worlds, and I snapped away - 128MB doesn't look like too vast a capacity now!

Glad to see Andrew is entertaining everyone, and a roaring trade is going on in comments.