The metro system in each country is the best place to learn more about a countries culture and customs i loved travelling around in metros of every country – cheap and fun way to get around… altho strikes can suck – causing quite an inconvenience.

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Yes I have been a bit poor with posting of late mainly due to web hosting issues/decisions and lack of spare time. I have a new webhost lined up because I want to create a WordPress blog so my efforts are in that right now. However, I am very keen to start blogging and have some topics up my sleeve.

You must have been over in London in the past month. It was far too hot on the tube and around rush hour it is totally packed. I read interestingly that is illegal to transport cattle in temperatures over 27 degrees but humans on the tube travel in up to 40 degrees!

The system will break when the 2012 games start and the UK will embarrass itself. In winter and outside of rush hour I cant fault the service at all. You can arrive on the platform and there will be a train along in no longer than 4 minutes, and thats if your unlucky. I also learnt recently after the strikes that london tube drivers get around £40,000 a year salary and roughly 40 days holiday! Not a bad life.

Hope all is well with you.

London and Paris have always been touted as having the best underground systems in the world. I agreed till my latest experience in – sadly – London. Too many hiccups in the service. It was not just once, in a span of 2 weeks, that we had to settle for alternate bus services because the lines had disruptions.

Not to mention, of course, that in the recent heat wave, the tube weather went into the 40s, which was obnoxious.

I've been to London quite a few times and this was a first. So it made me very sad. The papers were right in asking: "how can we host the Olympics 2012?"