(My mom, after the summer 2007 bombing in London at the night club, posted a thread on the family website asking if I was OK. This was originally published 7 July 2007)
It's been mostly uneventful, actually. The first bomb was north of me, in "the City" and was aimed at a nightclub, which opened two days later. The Glasgow car bombing was the worse of the events. The Brits pride themselves with "getting on with it", and the papers have been rife with "we won't let them stop us from going about our business." The most I've been inconvenienced is that the pedestrian bridge between my office & Waterloo station is closed, so I actually have to cross the street to get to the shops in Waterloo. Most distressing. Apart from an definite increase in police presence, armed with bullet proof vests and big, mean looking guns, life is pretty much the same as always in the old town. Today is the last day of Wimbledon, and the start of the Tour de France, which this year, starts in London, not far from my flat. My flat, mum, is between Victoria station and Houses of Parliament/Westminster Abbey - south of Piccadilly Circus, where the first car bomb was found.
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