Redland House Hotel
Travel Blogs from London
A positive outlook...
... with fresh berries or an egg mayo sandwich; to have a cup of heavenly coffee delivered to my room each morning and to spend lazy afternoons lying on my couch listening to PG's most incredible voice (he is busy recording a new song for a film soundtrack). Honestly, what have I got to complain about? What I hadn't quite appreciated was just how much a job can give your life a sense of routine and purpose, I didn't realise just how lucky I am to have such a satisfying, ...
Day 19 - When in London? Shop!
... London before! One option is called a Travelcard, which costs 7 pounds to travel after 9.30am on an unlimited number of buses, trains and tubes within central London for one day. The other option is of course to pay individual fares, which would add up to a lot.
After a tiny bit of research I decided that it would be a good idea for us to be real Londoners and invest in an Oyster card, which is like a prepaid dedit card for the London public transport system. With an Oyster ...
Olympic Fever
... we got the full reach around search and then headed inside. It was a really cool set up, the whole thing was free and heaps of cool things to do while you wait. Holly, Matt and I enjoyed a quick game of Badmington while we waited which was a lot of fun and then we found some seats while we waited for Hannah to join us.
It was about dinner time so I thought I should probably start to wait in the cue to get some food, I knew the lines ...
Kensington, Picadilly circus, Scottish kilts!
... Marie and went to the real mary king's close tour. This is a tour of the underground city of Edinburghduring medeviel times. Spooky & neat at the same time. They used to throw out their bathroom buckets & yell "gardy loo!" This is where the phrase **** faced comes from. Good to know.
Met up with 3 other girls from the group and went on a pup crawl, starting near our hostel! Met an American guy (go figure..) from New Orleans & hungout with him & played ...
Drew in London
... train station. Anyway I eventually got the first tube to the station and bought my ticket for the express train online to save time, and when I arrived they said there had been a failure and the trains weren’t working at all.. gah! So I had to go back to the tube and get it all the way to the airport anyway (which takes an hour as opposed to the 15min express). So I fiiiiinally made it to the airport and wandered around ...