Victoria Park London

So today, I was up bright and early for our all-day London bus tour. We were unfortunately not on a double decker, but our fantastic tour guide, Brit, made up for my disappointment. Brit was an amusing name to me (which shows how mature I am) because she is "Brit the British Tour Guide" now...forever....in my head. I was contemplating an American …

Olympic fever was in the air as we headed out on the town and our first stop was the world famous Madame Tussauds wax museum. Again we were lucky enough to not have any lines which was really weird but once we were inside things got a bit crazy. It was actually pretty cool, some of the stars looked amazing, so lifelike, while others looked horrid! …

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... and I tried to take pictures, but I don't know how they'll come out. We got lunch and were going to take it over to Victoria Park, but we didn't think we'd have enough time before the train so we just ate at the train station. The train on the way ...

... there was to see and it was now time to get into the Olympic spirit! We were meeting Matt at Victoria park which was one of the 2 main parks in London that was showing the opening ceremony on a big TV screen. Matt had pre warned us the queue was massive ...

... 't afford any foods so just kept walking. Back in the room we found another van to go see.. so back on the tube we go to Victoria Park. Get picked up by the local Lepricorn and taken about 3 km from the train station to his house to see the van. If you ...

... grandes escenarios para ver las olimpiadas, ubicados estrategicamente en dos parques bien grandes y separados entre si: en el este, Victoria Park, y en el oeste, Hyde Park. Ya que estoy viviendo a pasitos de Hyde Park, concurri dichosamente en ...

... cellophane, pieces of paper, colourful magazine pages. Saw our first brood of little ducklings, so it's official, it's spring. Tomorrow, Islington. Lets hope we can find a space to moor or we shall have to go on and hope to find a space at Victoria Park ...

... with my friend Kylie who has been living in London for about a year now. She had organised tickets for the Lovebox Festival in Victoria Park. We could only manage to get tickets to the Friday as all the other days were sold out. We had spectacular ...

... and guards up the street then cut over to Hyde Park. At Hyde Park, we quickly went through security (better organized than Victoria Park for the opening ceremonies) and started our rounds. We made a loop through the park looking at all the big screens ...

... a 3pm our manic 24 hours began. 3-4pm   Catch up and get clean time 4-5pm   Walk in Victoria Park towards Olympic Park 5-6pm   Blocked by canal from reaching Olympic park, but stumbled into funky riverside bar 6-7pm   Wine and ...

... decorative, artistic, and thematic.  Call it "flair" if you like, but my preference was for Her Majesty's time period. The Victoria Park Plaza Hotel is situated close to Victoria station.  In spite of its location, it's a modern hotel with some ...

... you know it we were back in London.  Such a quick and eay trip, faster than going from Victoria to Vancouver by a long shot. Back in London and back at Park Plaza then off to a traditional British roast beef dinner at ...