London
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At the airport, we made our way to the British Airways desk to drop our main backpacks off, and I greeted the gentleman behind the counter with a friendly "ohio gozaimasu." He seemed to take an eternity to look at our passports, and was busy pressing ...
London
I met Rick by the London Eye. It was a drizzly, damp, gloomy day. Normal London weather, I suppose, but not exactly promising sweeping vistas of the skyline. Ah well, we boarded our capsule and were bourne up towards the sky. Water droplets stuck to the ...
Weird
Friday we land and go to Barnet for the first time to see unborn Nephew, Ben (and James and Liz). Saturday we realise we don't have a visa for Vietnam and we kind of need one. Shit. Sunday we have lots of family and friends over and they are ...
We're in london still..
Alright? Hope everyone hasn't given up on the blog but not much to report again. Our last few days in London went quite quickly. We visited the National Gallery a few times for the free tours they offer. There was a great selection of paintings ...
Up up and away............
... had plenty of time to make our way there. We stopped off in Leicester Square for lunch in Wetherspoons and then realised that it was to difficult to travel around london with our heavy bags, so we just took a train to Heathrow and waited for the ...
Bon Voyage! Heathrow - day 1
So, the day had finally arrived. In the preceding few days, both Lauren and Ross were still frantically trying to tie-up loose ends in readiness for their flight of freedom. For example, on a day that should have been for quiet time ...
London City
... stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames in Lambeth, London, England, north of Westminster Bridge. It is a must visit place in London! That day the weather was fine! Sunny and ...
Kings, Queens and Double Decker Buses
... in our hands, working to catch up and listening to a great Irish band in a crowd of thousands in Trafalgar Square. It was London's annual St. Patrick's Day festival, and everyone had managed to find a bit of Irish in their blood. What I really love about ...
Long Flight to London
... was long but not too bad. The meals were very average but I guess that is expected on a plane. Our hotel is nice and modern (Another Ibis Hotel) and next to Euston station which is great for access to London. Glad to be here again. Daniel ...
Flat's starting to look empty.... (Liz)
So we seem to be getting there. The flat is efficiently almost empty with a whole 2.5 weeks until we leave.... It's good from an organisational perspective although quite depressing that I have no good clothes to wear until then!! Still have 3 Muse ...
A day of travels
... lounge for a couple of hours before we headed out to London. This was a business class flight, so we caught some shuteye. Arrived in London, we camped at the Heathrow BA lounge (we had a 5 hour layover). Here we took a nice shower and did some admin ...
London, St. Neots and Cambridge and London and....
... a good old knees up in south London near where I was born, for a part in New Cross, dirty beats, drunken smiles, and north London crew, what else could a couple of dip sticks ask for. I managed to make it to the pub the next day at around midday ...
Finding it hard to concentrate on work.....
It's 3 and a half weeks until i finish work and 6 and a half weeks until Kevin and I leave the UK for a mammoth 15 months. Surprisingly i'm finding it hard to concentrate on my work when there is a considerable amount to sort out! Most recently it ...
Hogmanay for New Years (Edinburgh)
... so cold all morning felt warm. What crazy things people do for fun. Memorable though. After another night out, the tour headed back to London on the second of January. My Scotland trip was now over. Scotland was freezing, I got wet so many times. The ...
London, GB
As Monday May 1st was a bank holiday, Des, my brother Lou, and his partner Lynn and I spent the day at Windsor Castle along with every other tourist in England. I particularly enjoyed Queen Mary's Doll's House and The Armoury. St George's Chaple was ...
London calling
... how long a 50 mile journey in South America would take? There is a heat wave in the UK this summer. When we arrive at London Victoria station there are blue skies. From here we walk around the usual sights: the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, 10 Downing ...
Quick update.....
Oh how plans change..... have been contacted by an old school friend (we went through school since we were 3 years old!) who is currently is Thailand. Our birthdays are one day apart - me being older which was very important when you're 3 years old! I ...
Photo-shoot
Take a look at these!!! How hilarious! As a part of a voucher thingy I went to a professional studio today and had my hair and makeup done and then had my photos taken. I had to take a few outfits from my incredibly up-to-date designer, mega ...
The wettest April and a murderer on the loose!
... has been limited so the blog inevitably has suffered. We have had to cut our trip in the UK short to 2 weeks. After 3 days exploring London we hired a car and began a whip-around tour of England, Wales and Scotland. That was 8 days ago. We have seen so ...
It's a mini adventure!
... agents didn't find suitable tenants (well,they did, but the perfect tenants changed their minds at last minute) being in London without working, paying for the mortgage and general living costs seriously eats up your budget, travel time etc etc etc - ...
In London
Leaving do Im pretty sure this pic is from Dinesh's leaving do. Though it could have been Cobus's as they left around the same time! L-R Some guy. Becs Cobus Adrian Me Dinesh Nat ...
We definitely aren't in India yet...
... beat him at the board game). And so it was with considerable relief that we settled into our next overnight flight, this time leaving cloudy London with the knowledge that we would be guaranteed warm weather at our next ...
Last Stop - London
... 're only a 5 hour flight from Cairo." It was good that London was our last stop - it made the outrageous prices bearable. London is a really cool city, definitely one of the top 5 of the trip. The British Museaum is a personal favorite of mine, they ...
Tourists in London
Two weeks before Melanie started her new job, we took a few days as tourists in London. We found cheap flights on EasyJet and used Chris' accumulated Marriott points to stay at the wonderfully located Grosvenor Square hotel. We did a lot of ...
