The Internet. Or perhaps I should begin with the lack of it.

For a country so dense in population and with a massive telecommunications network it then seems odd to find that in our pocket of Greater London (Ilford) we have been unable to get any Wi-Fi connection. The preparations we made before leaving Australia for 30 days of pre-paid Wi-Fi internet access have come to mean nothing when there is no “Hot Spot” nearby. So once again we are incommunicado until we find somewhere that we can actually pick up a signal. I have to say that you really haven’t lived until you have attempted to conduct several financial transactions via text message and an obliging son back in Perth! Thank you, Shaun.

As seems to be usual with my travelling experiences the blog will be, at best, intermittent until we reach Invermoriston where we know for certain that there is Wi-Fi access.