Yesterday, my iPod and my iTunes had a fight. All of the gory details are detailed elsewhere. In the end, I reinstalled iTunes, reformated my iPod and as of this morning, all is well. I’ve much fewer songs on my iPod, only the tracks I really wanted to have today, but the rest of the music is backed up and available whenever.

But when iTunes did its initial search for locally-housed music, it pulled a bunch of video as well. And right there in the mix were several little movie files that I thought I’d lost. They were all these short clips I recorded with my Kodak DX3600 during a trip to London in 2002. I never really knew what to do with them at the time, though I did have them available for download on a previous incarnation of this site. It was in a subfolder of that old site’s backup that iTunes found them.

So after a little stitching one to another, I’ve uploaded the result to YouTube. Is it groundbreaking? No. But for a nostalgia-addicted Anglo-phile like myself, I’m quite pleased.

What are you watching? I’ll tell you (as best as I can remember).

• 0:00 – Britrail – Egham to Waterloo Station (My brother’s family was living in Egham at the time.)
• 0:15 – Swiss Cottage Tube Station (?) – Escalator Up
• 0:31 – Crossing the street in Hampstead
• 0:50 – Outside the BAFTAs – near Odeon Leicester Square)
• 1:23 – Busker singing “El Condor Pasa” in the Tube station, John and Janice are walking just ahead of me.
• 1:36 – Taking a break in Covent Garden
• 1:48 – London Transport Museum – a model train
• 1:58 – Juggler in Covent Garden
• 2:22 – String quartet in Covent Garden.
• 2:53 – Outside St. Paul’s Cathedral – Memorial to the people of London who died in the blitz 1939 – 1945.