Time to beat the dead horse (or thread) again!
I never got the internship in London, instead I'm at a web bureau in Gothenburg, Sweden. But I'm as happy as ever with this placement.
Oh yeah, mhuk, you're absolutely right that there is no point in using XHTML (insert flavor here) instead of HTML 4.01 Strict. Even if you do serve it as application/xhtml+xml, there little advantage in using it at the moment. Well, just needed to get that off my chest, I guess.
Back on topic; I couldn't bring my Silvia with me unfortunately, but there's two great coffee places just five minutes from the office (I even pass them every morning on my way to work) so I'll survive for sure.