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Travel Blogs from London
The first two days!
... to celebrate. Once I found a place to park the house, with someone to look after it, he really had no excuses left!
We are not 'tour' people but rather 'independent' travelers. I found a tour company that offered exactly what we were looking for. Monograms, provides assistance in booking lodging, transfers and airfare. The lodgings all come with a full 'American' style breakfast each morning, a ...
AAE - anxious, afraid and excited
Not long now until I flight. So slowly I am getting very anxious about going to Australia and I can't stop thinking about it. It is such a hugh step to do. It slowly is stealing my sleep. It's just I can't wait to go now.... Over the last couple of days I said goodbye to a few friends. One of them is Greg. I went to Rochester on Friday to see him. He as well opened his own pup which is a random thing to do for ...
London Calling...Hello Olympics
... and crowd engaging as this one. Festival atmosphere and our seats were very close to the action. No Aussie team playing, but great just to be there. Call me naive, but I was surprised that they had alcohol at the event...I just never thought they did that at the Olympics.
Day 3 was our 2pm Basketball event at the Olympic Park. But before that we wanted to squeeze in something. So I visited the Churchill War Rooms and Mum toured Westminster Abbey. ...
London's Burning!
... start heading towards home. Its was about 3:30pm by this stage and I had a long walk ahead of me. Leaving the train station I was greeted by Emma's dream location. There, in front of me, were two theatres each showing classic shows. The Apollo Victoria was showing Wicked, and the Victoria Palace was showing Billy Elliott. A little further on there was probably the coolest pub in London. Surrounded by tall buildings, this little four storey pub sat there in defiance. The ...
Irene's 40th
What we didn't tell you is that the real reason for this European trip was Fintan's sister 40th birthday, and their dad's 60th.
Fintan follow the convenience 3 for 2 rule and decided we could pack in another event and decided to fit in our wedding.
In a few words, we gatecrashed Irene's and Dermot's big birthday venue in Italy.
Although we had a beautiful soiree dedicated to them at the Borgo, Irene also had planned ...