Looks like you have a bad case of sprintlink!
They should really rename their company to 'molasses-link' or something smiliary honest.
When Germans get affected by the sprintlink pest they do route via the US to the UK. I guess you have a similar problem. Nothing you can do really except scream at your provider or use another one who might be using a different routing partner for the trip to the UK.
Seem to remember reading that that program displays where the owner of a given server is located rather than the server itself. . or some such geektalk. Certainly the Drachs servers isnt in California
what stephanius said tbh, I got BY to reset my router allocation after a while, dunno if you can do the same, worked great and I went from 25+ hops to 8-10