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Travel Blogs from London
Visiting (and Temporarily Losing) Friends- Pt. 1
... to see Henry VIII's armor. History books always describe him as tall and, later in life, quite stout. Seeing his armor in comparison to that of his predecessors and successors made me appreciate the accuracy of this description! (His massive codpiece was a bit... distracting.)
Also in the White Tower is St. John's Chapel. At the risk of sounding like a typical American, I wasn't all that impressed. I know it has a LONG history and is ...
Lions and Beatles and Mummies, Oh My!
... t get a curtain call, presuably because it was a school night), but Kyle hated the young Simba kid-he found the way he moved around to be annoying.
Following the show, we walked around Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square looking for a place to have some dinner. Everything was either
too expensive or too packed with drunken kids and smokers to look
appetizing. So, we ended up eating
sandwiches at home, which turned out great!
...
Beach Volleyball My First Olympic Event
... as I was. It was kind of ironic that it was Emzy who I was sitting in the pub with on my birthday trying to explain beach volleyball to her. Now we were going to see it live.
I met her at Westminster Tube station and we began the walk to the Horse Guards Parade. There seemed to be a lot of people walking with us. At about the half way point it began to rain a bit. I looked up and saw a rainbow, that was stretching the entire sky, and in my ...
Random Nuggets Of Information
... I even considered shaving my toes for the occasion but this was not to be. The British climate is so fond of autumn it indulges in it as much as possible, only relenting when winter fancies another bash at making the population miserable. You end up spending most of the season indoors, gazing out of the window as the Rain God waits for you to leave the house before tipping buckets of iced water on your head and s******ing. And I'm sorry but ...
Back to London
... said our farewells to Maurizio who is taking the coach back to Rome! He has become a very popular figure on our tour, always cheerful, very helpful with the cases and he always had a supply of cold bottles of water in the coach fridge! He was an expert driver, handling the 14.3 metre coach as though it was a car, getting us into and out of the narrowest streets you could think of! He had a great sense of humour and copped a serious bagging when Italy got ...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility