I had my own business in those days but had given myself the day off. I was at my mum's house when my aunt came over and told us to turn the telly on...
I have a vague recollection of seeing it on BBC so I must have been in the UK. I remember it was after I`d been to Live8 and London had just been awarded the Olympics so there was a feel-good factor that was then shattered by the terrorists.
In a friend's cottage in Thornham with no phone and wondering about friends travelling in London as many of us were.
The relief that they were fine and then the guilt at feeling relieved.
I was at work trying to find out how my area manager and head office staff were as they were based in Tavistock Square, during the afternoon I had a call from the area manager and he had been in the directors office when the bus exploded and they had rushed to look out of the window and could see right into the top of the bus. some of the staff were hurt and kept in the building waiting for ambulances but they couldn;t get help. some of the staff never returned to that building and the firm relocated out of the city after that.
I was working at Limehouse station when the news came on the radio, The London Hospital cleared all non urgent patients to make room for casualties.
People came from every direction trying to get out of London, due to lack of information the trains still ran as booked , 4 carriages only, meaning standing room only IF you could get on.