The London bombings are horrible of course. Thing thing that has brought some of this home is that unlike Bali and New York is that I have been to the places that the bombs went off.

When I was in London in September, I was staying on Russel Square in a hotel there. Russell Square underground station was just around the corner from the hotel. Tavistock Square road went past the hotel, and is about 20m away from the entrance to the Russell Square Tube Station.

And Kings Cross Station is only a short walk from there. I used the tube between there and Russell Square a number of times, and when I went to Boston, UK for the funeral I went from Kings Cross Station.

What has been interesting has been the number of photos taken by phones by people, creating an instant record of the situation. The UK is also an interesting place since there are a huge number of closed circuit TV cameras meaning that I am sure that there will be a huge amount of evidance recorded to catch the people who did this.