It was even more interesting to return to the UK this time; I’ve only discovered my actual heritage in the last 7 years of which my last trip to the UK was 11 years ago. I have learned that I’m a mix of Scottish(MacKay), 
English(Swain) and French(Gambs) with more to be discovered later, I hope. My trip to the wonderful UK continued with my Ambassadors/Partners/Tour Guides/Minders’ then treated me to some wonderful history in our walking tour through London and Westminster settling in for lunch at the Crypt of St. Martin.
The “Crypt” was an amazing little hole in the ground place to eat some reasonably priced food that taste great with a juicy side order of history. I would recommend and return for lunch anytime. Next, I pleaded for another dose of culture during our walking tour as we chatted about history, food, politics, business and many other things I don’t remember because I was all hopped on the tea, coffee and diet coke trying avoid the j-lag.
We were able to set aside a few minutes to step into the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square checking out a few works from little known artist like Rembrandt, Canaletto and Raphael. (wonderful, wonderful…)
It was such an exhilarating day of exploring, learning and sharing discussions and thoughts about London and much more. I felt very fortunate to spend so much one-on-one time with my UK partners getting educated about the obvious and not-so-obvious nuances of doing business in the UK and Europe. They’d provided many perspectives that I’d not considered which thank you goodness they have their eye on the prize, this will surely assist us in the short and longer term.
It’s late into the afternoon and we have sent one of party back up north for dinner with his very charming wife while my other compadre’ is with me for the duration on day 2 of the TruLondon II tour. We start hiking around the streets of Westminster looking for an address for the TruSource folks. We go side street by side street we find and head up a couple of flights of stairs to start meeting talent from around the world. In the stairs, ran right into the Bill Boorman @billboorman and Geoff Webb @radicalrecruit (TruLondon Founders) and a new friend Craig Fisher @fishdogs it was nice to collide with friendly faces and voices. (I’d interview both on my radio show DriveThruHR as chatted with both on the phone) Next, it was Maha upstairs and some other folks but I think the jet-lag was kicking in becuase I don’t remember who else we
The day was wrapping up so it was time to shift gears for a drink and some food, more the social side of the unconference but also discussion after discussion continued on. Met several folks here from the unconference and also didn’t get the pleasure of meeting thea!%h(*& who felt they needed my laptop more than I did. Good luck with cracking into that box you punks, anyway. PH met as many people as we could absorb for the day and headed back north to Milton Keynes for one more night.
We got off the train fairly late into the classic English fog, thick as mushy pea soup but luckily our driver is a long-time pilot and provided me with quite an exhilarating ride back to the house, quite fun and yee-haw! Paul and Nigel again, thank you for getting me hauled all over the country safely and enjoyably.
