Took it pretty easy on Saturday, needed to catch up on some sleep after the last few weeks. Got some breaky at a cool place called “The Metro”, which has a map of the London Underground on the wall. I amused myself for quite a while reading all the names, Bottomleigh, Chudsworth, Pudding Mill Lane .. OK I made those up, but the real names are funny too.

I found a cool internet cafe, hence the blogging, with awesome hot chocolate. After years of Tilley’s made-to-order hot chocolate I’m pretty picky. But this was pretty damn good, and further reinforced my opinion that hot chocolate must come with marshmallows, and preferably in the chocolate.

Today (Sunday) started with rain, which was a bit of a downer, I’d been keen to ride out to the castle on the peninsula. Instead I took my time, waited for the rain to stop, and eventually it did. So I raced down to the bike shop, and after very little haggling had myself a pretty decent mountain bike, but with slick tires for around town, all for $100/week.

By mid afternoon the sun was out, so I just started riding north for the hell of it. After a while I saw signs to “Signal Hill” which sounded promising. 90 minutes of serious hill later, I found myself at a pretty cracking look out. Check out the photos if you care.

Needless to say the ride down was pretty awesome. About 10 minutes of serious speed, if I get the time I might ride up again just for the descent.