I figured I probably ought to post something to let the wider world know we made it safely to London, and have been engaging in tourism. So, please take the above photo of St. Paul's with a backdrop of the ominous dark clouds that have been chasing us around the city as proof of our location.
We also dropped by the offices of Oneworld Publications, the nice folks who published the UK edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. While there, I took these:
Covers for the UK editions of my first book and Sean Carroll's second, displayed in the publisher's offices.
Good company to be in...
Anyway, we're here, we're enjoying ourselves, and I'm too busy to blog at length. Tomorrow is my talk in Bristol, which I'm told is now fully booked. And then it's Worldcon, which likely won't leave time for much blogging, either.
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