Houses of Parliament London

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 …

Don't even know where to begin my London travels, I guess for kicks we'll start at the beginning. :-)

My travel day was a bit longer than I would have desired. I had to take one of the kids to school at 7:45 AM which is a 40 minute drive and the airport another half hour so I didn't want to turn all the way around just to drive back. …

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, …

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It was an easy ride under the ocean and through to the english speaking side of Europe where we were welcomed with open arms (even in our sleep deprived state our senses were heightened to the pleasant sounds of a British accent saying words that didn't sound like Charlie Brown's …

I have officially worked out that people in the UK are all a bunch of weirdos...... I have taken in so much over the past 8 days but here are some things that have unusually stood out.

• English people are depressed and they all hate themselves and their country! Its so weird i think i have only met 2 locals who actually had a hop …

We really stormed the beaches today!!!! And it rained most of the day in London.....who would have thought!

After getting up and having a nice breakfast near Earl's Court, we headed UPTOWN! We stopped at a small museum on Arab culture in modern London which Laurie looked through. They were having an exhibition on Adonis and she really …

Here ye, here ye... Today shall hereby be named... Ultimate Tourist day!

It's currently 3am London time and the incessant jet lag is leading us to believe writing this to Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" is the best idea in the world. Don't worry folks, after 15 minutes of attempting... Failure is imminent.

After smashing …

First day of sight seeing started out catching the tube to big ben and walked around the house of parliament, walked up to Trafalgar square to get a photo with Nelson stopping off at the red phone boxes and the Royal cavalry on the way. Then we walked down to Buckingham palace where thousands of people were waiting for the change of the guard so we …

Ok, so, this day. Wow, was it busy.

I began my day with a walk through Kensington Gardens, wandering about and not trying for any particular route until the end, when I figured I should be making my way out and still hadn't seen the Peter Pan statue. After I found it, as I was trying to find my way out I realized that I had actually made …

Our last break was over Thanksgiving and was five days long. For this one, we decided to go to London for two nights and then take an overnight cruise to Amsterdam, where we also stayed for two nights. We had no class Tuesday the 20th, and took a flight out of Milan that landed in London around 9pm. Our hostel was in the center of Paddington and …

... , we were right beneath Big Ben’s Tower.  Wandering around we took at look at the London Eye, the Thames River, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.  While starting to walk towards Buckingham Palace, Ben chimed out his noonday ...

... the ride took nearly half an hour. Inside the capsule, the experience was like magical and full of excitement! I looked at The Houses of Parliament, London Bridge and the Big Ben from the wheel and I felt like I was standing in the middle of the air. ...

... . When we arrive at London Victoria station there are blue skies. From 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 ...

... , big Ben, the London eye, the bridge that gets twisted and destroyed in one of the Harry Potter 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 ...

... again. After the "flight" was finished we headed off on a little walking tour around the area passed the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Downing Street, Horse Guards before ending up in Trafalgar Square and deciding it was time for lunch. ...

... ie. one sight in four days in Vilanius. Buckingham Palace, Tower Hill and Bridge, West Minister Abbey, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament just to name a few of the places we darted to. First night, a severely jet lagged Chad and I managed to get ...

... the parklands to the Horse Guards, past Downing Street (now gated off from the public) to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. I did the tour (10pound entry, 5pound tour!) and although expensive, it was an informative 90 ...

... lack of food causing Megs to get a wild, twitchy look in her eye) and took in Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. They are both amazing and were definitely worth putting off breakfast for. Just behind Parliament is Westminster Abbey but did you ...

... way. London's skyline is not as interesting as Paris and of course the Eye is not as high as the Tower. The Houses of Parliament looked pretty cool from above. Afterwards Naomi et al left us to go and explore Pall Mall and Buckingham Palace. The ...

... by Hyde Park, St James Park, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Gardens, St Martins in the Fields, Whitehall, Houses of Parliament & Big Ben, and the Diana Memorial Fountain.  Our guide was great, noticeably different from the ...