title	London in the Rain - 18th November 2004
intro	There are two trips to London, in the space of two days. The first is to drop some phones off for some big Analysts' Demonstration, whilst the second is for Qualcomm Europe's All-Hands meeting. After the meeting, there's a bit of time to wander around a very wet London - the reflections of neon lights on the wet pavements perhaps wouldn't be out of place in a Ridley Scott film. There's also a brush with the law, as a couple of Rozzers at Liverpool Street Station wander over to see what the photographs are all about. Apparently, in the paranoid police state of Britain, even taking photos of a station requires "a permit". To their credit, the Fuzz were quite civil about it, only wanting to see what photos had been taken, rather than insisting on an overnight stay in a cell and a swift interrogation courtesy of MI6. In between, there are a few photos of perhaps the most dramatic sunset clouds ever seen, reminiscent of the clouds that surround the invading alien ships in Independence Day.
img_1049	Hyde Park Corner Underground station
img_1050	Kings Cross Station at night
img_1054	A train pulls out of Kings Cross
img_1057	It's cone-tastic on the A14 at Rougham
img_1059	Rougham junction on the A14 is being rebuilt
img_1060	Cranes and concrete mixers on the A14
img_1062	Malevolent cloud hangs over Matrix House
img_1066	There are bright yellow flecks in the cloud mass
img_1070	There's all sorts of detail in the clouds
img_1074	The mass moves off over Cambridge
imgp0151	The gloomy rail tracks leading to Liverpool Street
imgp0152	Wet wooden sleepers on a set of point
imgp0154	Platforms 8 and 9 at Liverpool Street
imgp0156	K6 phone boxes on Kensington High Street
imgp0157	A newspaper kiosk
imgp0220	The Wellington Memorial at Hyde Park Corner
imgp0222	Light splashes like paint in Picadilly Circus
imgp0226	More lights on wet paving slabs
imgp0227	Someone roams around with an umbrella
imgp0232	Picadilly Circus
imgp0239	The Trocadero
imgp0240	Looking back at Picadilly Circus
imgp0247	The Houses of Parliament
imgp0252	Looking up Whitehall to the Cenotaph
imgp0253	Waiting for the tube
imgp0254	Crowds mill around at Liverpool Street
imgp0259	Liverpool Street is fairly packed
imgp0260	People swarm like ants
imgp0265	Some are a blur, whilst others stand and wait
imgp0268	The lights under the far end of the platform