Marble ArchBig Brother. That’s all he could think of when he reached the bottom step and saw the camera peering down. Surveillance in the UK was unprecedented for a Western country. Group members were reminded of this. It seemed those red-text posts that appeared in chat rooms and boards had doubled over the last few weeks, variations of “Beware: Security patrols this place frequently” under the “Heads Up” section. The two cruising sites he perused employed slightly different wording, but they both urged “caution” and “common sense.” Eight months. That’s how long he’d been saving for this trip. He’d read in the paper an article titled, Around the World in 8 Days. An exaggeration for sure, but the author recounted how she’d very cleverly booked flights from point A to point B to point C a

