London, 3.45pm
I’m glad I wasn’t at Wimbledon for the tennis reenactment of Waiting for Godot starring Nicolas Mahut and John Isner. At the 6-hour mark I’d be ready to kill myself or, more likely, others.
Got off the ship at 9am, made my way to London, and now I’m in Hampstead with Rian and Bo…watching the start of the 11th hour of Waiting for Someone’s Serve to Fail Him Once, but on TV. How can those guys be walking, let alone playing tennis? They should be masses of pain. Their aches should have aches. Amazing.
On the train we spotted this guy.
This is a stolen snapshot using my phone, but you can see the resemblance, right? Right? He looks like Roger Federer. (And this is not a flattering photo. Also, my friend has seen The Fed and says he looks ten times better in person, and my friend is a Rafael Nadal fan.) The longer we stared at him the more he looked like Roger. He and his friend sounded American.
Isner won. Fifth set: 70-68.
June 25th, 2010 at 16:20
Breaking news: “Nadal snubs invitation to meet the queen” (http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20100625-277499/Nadal-snubs-invitation-to-meet-the-Queen)
June 27th, 2010 at 23:09
Oh my lord. Kamukha nga. Doppelganger!