London
Travel Blogs from London, United Kingdom
Meet the Parents
... getting the blog up to date and doing all the other stuff we hadn't had a chance to do online. Catching our early flight to London, it was uneventful, but we did have to sit on the tarmac at a busy Heathrow for half an hour. Eventually we made it through ...
Old Blighty
... why would we walk around with packs on our backs? Must be something dangerous in there......After a sound night's slumber outside of London's Heathrow, I ponder my next moves. I hadn't planned on spending time in the UK, except to visit my cousin living ...
Home...
... . No sooner have we landed that it feels like a dream, a time in space that is now locked in our heads. The weather here in London is gray and really cold but fortunately (if there is such a word) we've missed the snow. Reality bites now and we still wish ...
London Bridge is Falling Down
... a very short captain and crew was also nearby so we walked over to take a quick look at that. Afterward we walked across London Bridge, wondering why it was just a normal, unspectacular bridge. We looked across the water and saw Tower Bridge and thought ...
Being British
... floor and their BBC "Apprentice" is Donald Trump Free. The history that goes along with that word: "British". As our London Eye host correctly pointed out, people often mistakenly compare London with New York City. They are mistaken in such a ...
Hello
A little background information for those who are not aware. Cathy alias Rene is 32, she launders money and gun runs for a small Manx cartel. In her spare time Rene enjoys stunt kite flying, meccano and pipe smoking. Lee alias Louie is 28, he collects ...
Free assessment of your travel writing
How often do writers help aspiring writers? Not very often. But this guy does. Not only offering advice, but also an assessment of your writing. Free ...
London Town
... at Kitts and provided some great additions to the dance team comprised of Phin, myself and a few of his buddies that were absolutely awesome! London was a ton of fun but by the time I got to the airport to head home, I was ready for a break... a ...
Megan and the Queen
... we saw the Queen and Duke in the royal carriage go pottering by. We'd seen the Queen and given a wave; our trip to London was now complete. With the crowds thinning out we wandered back through the city (we actually know our way around this place ...
In the Beginning
Not much to explain in this entry, just some pictures of our leaving parties. Why not jump to the entry where we whisk overland from Europe to Russia The Adventure Begins to pick up the Trans-Siberian Express. Or find out how we fared in linguistic ...
UNEMPLOYED AT LAST
MY LAST DAY AT CSFB Can't believe how quickly it has come around but here I am just about to go to the bar to celebrate my final departure in the traditional fashion with gallons of champagne (Me and Elaine) warm flat beer and cheap wine (everyone ...
WE'RE FINALLY OFF
So long and thanks for all the fish, lager, lattes..... Dateline deepest Surrey, about to make a dash for LHR. I'm currently sheltering from packs of ladies (of a certain age) who trawl these parts streets in enormous Mercs looking to prey on lithe ...
Cold London
... gardens are calling very soon and the promise of a pay packet means we can treat ourselves to all those things that make London bearable(Alchol tranqulisers!). So the India trip has finished, but the traveling never stops (Esp as it takes an hour, by ...
Still here
... Valjean and Javert were very good and had amazing voices. Thanks Tim and Sam for an amazing night! I am always surprised by London’s cultural diversity and I always try and make the most of it when eating out here. Over the last few days ...
Final Week
Back to London having been to Chelmsford to see Dave's parents for a couple of days. Em's had her hair chopped off ready for the Russian weather! Picked up our flight tickets from Trailfinders today (see photo) and then went to the Adventure Travel ...
The Bill
To help others planning similar trips, this is how much we spent mostly staying in dorms and cooking for ourselves in expensive countries like Australia and New Zealand but staying in budget hotels and eating out in restaurants in most of ...
Our first day out
So we slept well last night at Kate and Phil's house outside of London. We have all enjoyed visiting with our cousins. The children are getting along really well. Morgan and Edward have been playing Nintendo together and the girls have enjoyed mothering ...
London! We're Here!
... made it to the hostel, booked outrageously expensive beds at £10 each (actually it is the cheapest we heard of in central London) and collapsed onto them. Once we had replenished our energy and enthusiasm we headed out for Rick to get his very long ...
Would you go so low to go on a group tour?
I remember running into a classmate from high school. He was fresh back from a trip to Europe, a kind of rite of passage for many Kiwis and Ozzies, who feel the need to go overseas to find themselves, forget themselves, find where their great ...
Going slow in the UK
... stepping on a plane, or taking two years to travel a distance they could in an overnight flight. And now in London . . . Millions of Londoners are being urged to try swapping their frenetic lifestyles for a much slower and relaxing way of ...
Travel Philosophies
Now that I've survived a year on the road travelling through some pretty interesting and apparently risky places, I thought I'd share a few of travel philosophies (for longer term travel mainly) which have guided me through some of the more difficult ...
The end is nigh...
1 day to go and before we commence with our travels. Excited, nervous... can't ...
That's My Umbrella!
... was something we weren't looking forward too; the hundreds of tourists fighting for space, but then again how could you go to London without seeing the famous Tower? At the gate Megs' umbrella gave up the ghost and died. It was so useless against the ...
Touch-down, reunions and a change of plan...
"Oh my God, this place is freezing!" Winter was still very much in evidence when we touched down in London mid-afternoon on Saturday 11 March. Brother-in-law Pete picked us up and we drove to their home in Sutton. It all felt so weird, so unreal. Being ...
Ahh. . London. .I will miss thee. .
... , and a pickup from the airport. Spending a relative bit more than I had hoped for my first nights in India, but as compared to London, a mere afternoon's expenditure. . . Goodnight, and Good Luck. . .from. . The BBC. . In Kinchasa. . Pictures soon. ...
First Easter egg hunt
We'd hardly found our feet back home in Edinburgh when it was down again to London for the Easter weekend. Mum-Jen and Dad-Pete were over from South Africa, so this would be a true family-oriented long weekend. Easter, just like Christmas, is all ...
