Much travelling and shenanigans has occurred since my last email.  The following is a very reduced update:

Tamworth:
Jo ran back to London while I went to Tamworth, which isn't the Country Music Capital of England, but a mate from Banana lives there.  I met about 7 or so lads and lasses from Rocky, discovered the wonderful Wetherspoons and painted the town a deep shade of red.  While I was incoherent some stranger tied my bootlaces together, and I provided much entertainment for the local police in my efforts to untie them.

Scotland:
I met up with my sister in Glasgow, rented a car, and did a three day blitz tour of Scotland.  The most fantastic scenery in the UK is in the Scottish highlands.  We saw a few Heilan' Coos, which was exciting.  Carla taught me a thing or to about whisky.  Met up with Jo again in Edinburgh.


Glastonbury:
Jo and I drove the 10 hours from Edinburgh to Glastonbury in a Smart Car.  Surprisingly it sat okay on 70 miles/hr, but when it gets to about 80 miles/hr (~130km/hr) it gets quite scary.  We spent two days playing in a tournament in Glastonbury, which I've given a longer speel on at the bottom of this email.

After Glastonbury we went to Bath, which has baths, then off to Windsor (very British), then jumped on a plane and came to New York.

HOORAY!

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Glastonbury Special:

The Glastonbury tournament was an interesting event.  Everyone camped at the fields and the place was a sea of tents.  We joined some of our team mates from Cambridge in a giant tent, and it was good.  There were 32 teams, and only 3 50 minute games a day.  We had enough time between games to climb The Tor (a hill with a 15 century structure on the top).  They have no rules about how many girls are on each team - Jo was the only girl on our team, and our first game was against a team of all girls.  Nice.

The best surprise of the tournament was an impromptu meeting with the Unmade Bed.  Keith had turned up to play for Portsmouth.  I played a few points with his team, and I was happy.

The party was tops.  Finally I was meeting some real English people.  I was keen to do a bit of mingling, but ended up spending the hours drinking beer through a makeshift gimp mask and playing a drinking game which often required one to hum the Dambusters theme.  Also played some foosball.  Fantastic!

Our team played slightly differently to what I was used to, but I liked what they did, and they were a fun bunch to play with.  We ended up coming 6th out of 32.