Sound London

... me stay at his place given he was moving in the next few days. He lives in Brixton, one of the rougher suburbs of inner London. When I arrived it was obvious why he was moving as his place was falling apart in the middle of a construction site. There was ...

... End prostitutes. Leaving a trail of blood that lead........nowhere" Between August and November 1888, the Whitechapel area of London was terrorized by a serial killer dubbed " Jack the Ripper".  He is responsible for five brutal murders although ...

... sea-lions, swung through steamy tropical jungles and above all soaked up lives and cultures far removed from our own. Still London's grey skies were unimpressed and unimpressive. The Derbyshire hills are still where I call home so I got straight on a ...

... , after all why would we walk around with packs on our backs? Must be something dangerous in there......After a sound night's slumber outside of London's Heathrow, I ponder my next moves. I hadn't planned on spending time in the UK, except to visit my ...

... language, preferably somewhere with a completely unintelligible script, and no way of getting any currency in advance... Personally I rather like the sound of the 'axis of evil', but we've been to the USA on several occasions so perhaps we'll pass ...

... a quid donation. Back out in the blue some other time and I wanted to visit the Guildhall - the geographical centre of London and a site which features heavily in any account of medieval London. It has been the seat of city administration for ...

... but I saw people next to me grab the sides of the seat. It was quite terrifying actually, but here I am, safe and sound in busy London. The pilots were probably very tired, but after the hundreds and hundreds of flights I've done, I've never walked away ...

... experiences volunteering with an NGO in Namibia - the lure of Africa remains as powerful as ever! On our way south to London we made a slight detour over into the eastern Cotswolds and spent a pleasant few hours in Oxford. Wandering through the colleges ...

... a revelation to find out what's going on in say, Great Barlow or Bushville or Bobbington. I just made those up, but they sound like they could be real. Since being back in this glorious country I have already managed to visit Germany, and have taken ...

... this amazing London sites ("and that is the club I stumbled out at 6am") and of course being shown the best culinary areas of London ("The Standard" this is the best Indian place in all of London!!!). I said that it has been great from day 1, but ...