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Sat, 08 Sep 2007

I have no words, just emotions.

Or short story about how I managed to walk in London.

Let me start from the beginning - I moved from Cambridge to meet with my friends in London, but I had only UK postal code of the destination and cached google maps and uk street maps pictures. The former with quite small resolution, i.e. without any street names, but with undeground station name. So I moved to the needed undeground station without any problems from King's Kross station, where I arrived from Cambridge.
When I moved out of the station building I found that my phone battery is completely discharged and I can not even turn phone on. So, first problems - I have no address, only postal code, and have no phone access. I was quite in a bad mood, since I managed to drop my camera today and it stopped to autofocus and make photos in automatic mode, but, well, I have curvy hands, so stop about that.
Anyway, I arrived to the needed undeground station and moved into needed direction, since I had roads on the map without names, I needed to select a distination intuitevly and got azimuth for the needed direction. Because of absence of street names on my map, I needed to make quite a big loop over main streets, but eventually I roughly was in the needed area. Actually I did not know what to do next, but eventually found the street for needed postal code. Street contained quite big number of houses, some of them are multi-appartment. Initial idea was to start calling to every bell and ask for my friends, but that was not a very good thing, so I started to talk with people on the street and asked them to show me what house has given postal code. No one could reply actually, but then I found Mike - a guy who asked me first about address, then after I said that I have only postal code he asked a number to call, when I said that my phone is fully discharged I saw that he has the same phone as mine, so I asked him to give me a battey, which he gladly agreed, so I called my friends and got a house number. He did not get a beer though, but I was quite happy that there are such people here. In russia, if anyone asks your phone then be ready he will run away with it.
It was quite fun journey.

I liked the whole summit - I saw very interesting people there, but could not actually talk with them - I did not know anyone so could not break other's conversation. I glad I was there and met those people. That was fun.
I'm about to drop my ticket back and return later - London is very interesting (although I like Cambridge more).
Thanks, that is really good meeting.

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