Buckingham Palace London

For this trip, I really have to start at the beginning. There really is no dull moment...

After a long year and a half Abi (my best friend counselor from Camp Bernadette who lives in Kent, England) and I were reunited in London thanks to a 30 euro RyanAir flight! How amazing! I left Friday morning to start this grand adventure. …

With a few emails sent out and finally I found some accommodation with a long lost friend from school. Jock Archibald; now living in London, was able to put me up for a couple of nights whilst my jet lag vanished. I was able to catch up again with Polo (Mark Dempster) as he was now working down in Portsmouth (southern England). A few tourist …

First Day
Well I am in London today is my first night it is been pretty great, I am so excited, because I never had been out of my country before this trip, my best friend and I arrived to Enterprise hotel on Friday at 7:00 pm, we were so tired, actually is a long travel, many hours flying.


The Victoria and Albert Museum …

A new country!! I'm pretty excited to get the chance to see London. It's a bit strange to be somewhere where everything is in English again. After a 2 hour flight, I got here easy enough. I stayed at a hotel near the Stanstead airport then took a bus in the morning into London.
I've realized that with every travel I make, it makes traveling …

Quickly went to see Buckingham Palace before we headed to the airport.
So disappointed - missed change of guards by 20 minutes.

Oh well least its an excuse to go and see it again when I get back lol

Headed for Heathrow Airport early to skip the rush on the tube!! Plus my bag is so heavy!! Didnt really fancy being squashed on …

After a late night, we woke up early at 5:30 so we could catch the Eurostar train to London. It was pretty difficult to get out of bed that early, espceially after a late night, but once we were up, it was easy to get ready.
We arrived at Gare du Nord early where we went through the long process of going through security, passport checks and …

Londra este pentru mine cea mai frumoasa destinatie europeana. Cladirile cu arhitectura lor deosebita, monumentele istorice, strazile aglomerate, atmosfera trepidanta din puburi si restaurante, toate acestea iti rasfata privirea si iti ofera o vibratie unica, vibratie pe care aici am intalnit-o pentru prima oara. Londra este inima Angliei, iar eu, …

This morning was an early one having to wake at 7am, much earlier than we are used to while on holidays. We got dressed, ate a quick breakfast and headed up the road to the Brighton Train Station. We were able to get a train right away to London Victoria Station and less than an hour after leaving we pulled up and disembarked from the train to the …

After a miserable night of sleeping and worrying over all the travel issues yesterday I got no more than 2 hours of sleep so I had Molly up by 530 and we grabbed coffee and pastries and were on our way. We walked to Buckingham Palace and through Hyde Park and then up to Westminster Abbey. The Abbey remarkable... it was weird to think about how man …

After all this hype, I am finally here! As a matter of fact I have been for nearly a week now. What can I say, its absolutely beautiful. So far I have traveled to a few different little towns; Kingston, Richmond, oh and some obscure place you may have heard of...London? Does the last one sound familiar? I went to London yesterday, and it was …

... Buckingham Palace, Ben chimed out his noonday bells to us.  Perfect! I must say though, I was quite disappointed by Buckingham Palace.  It seemed quite a bland looking building from the outside - although I’m sure it’s very ...

... bourne up towards the sky. Water droplets stuck to the windows, but we could see across the river to Parliament, St Pauls, Buckingham Palace. It was a great way to see familiar landmarks. Red buses added splashes of colour. I took lots of photos despite ...

... Out Wandering Around) and haphazardly taking in many of the sites. We saw Parliament and Big Ben, Westminister Abbey and Buckingham Palace with its constantly marching royal guards. We walked through SoHo and the red light district, ate an early dinner ...

... here we walk around the usual sights: the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, 10 Downing Street, Horse Guards Parade and Buckingham Palace. I feel a strong sense of historical pride as many of the buildings are centuries old and have been maintained in look ...

... movies, Westminster, Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery (to get out of the rain for a couple of hours) and Buckingham Palace and once again we can't believe we are here in another place that you see in movies and on TV. The ...

... Luckily though, London does offer quite a few free sights which we took advantage of, including the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, Tate Modern Gallery, and Tower Bridge. But we had to splurge some more, so we also ...

... the Tube up to Hyde Park. At the park there heaps of police on duty and barricades erected along the road that leads from Buckingham Palace down to the Horse Guards Parade at Whitehall. As it was early there weren't too many people about so we got a ...

... new Kate Middleton portrait!),  Royal Albert Hall, lunch at Marks and Sparks, The Transportation Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Buckingham Palace (editors note:  despite hanging around the front gate for hours, the Queen refused an audience with ...

... see the London Eye, Big Ben and Westminster abbey, through St James park to feed the squirrels haha!  Love the squirrel's!  Buckingham palace, Trafalgar sq, etc!  I wont go into it, as its pretty similar to one of my first entries!  ...

... g and trin a (mark´s mates) - brian and john (travel buddies from tibet). stuff we saw - tate modern - buckingham palace - brixton market - camden market - burrough market - tooting - natural history museum - british museum - victoria ...