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Travel Blogs from London
Back to Heathrow
... car and get to our hotel in London. So, we said our goodbyes and got back into the car to find our way to the Avis Rental drop off. This did not seem like it was going to be easy, but it was easier than we expected.
So, after 1,780 miles of the English country side, we dropped off the car (with only a little damage to the left front hub cap. This was the same damage I did when I drove in Ireland in 2004), we headed toward the ...
Jolly Ol'
... Airport to London’s Paddington Station). We changed to the Circle line at Paddington
and took it to St. Pancras where we changed again to the Northern Line to East
FInchley. For our first experience with
the tube, it is great that we didn’t get lost.
It is really quite simple. There
is virtually NO wait for the train (tube).
Sidenote: There are no elevators anywhere and there are
giant gaps ...
The Very First Step
... that seemingly go hand-in-hand with my age group (like an obsession with thinspiration and duck-faced pictures). However, with this trip I quickly discovered that I had fallen right into perhaps the worst stereotype - thinking that I know everything. Foolishly I expected that my time living in highly populated areas that see a lot of international tourism would automatically teach me enough and I wouldn't get so overwhelmed. I could not ...
Long slow escape from Marrakech
... seating is making people fractious. The airport system seems to be based on letting through the earlier flights in a timed fashion. When we eventually get through, we realise this is because they only operate one departure gate so to make it manageable, they only let in the current departure and the one preceding. Pity no-one explained this to us. Eventually we are released to enter and it is like a mad cattle run, made all the more confusing by having to separate ...
London: A Cathedral, a Skull, and Old Specimens
... a lovely view of London through the stone fences. We could now finally take out our cameras and take photos from this special vantage point.
There was yet another sign pointing up to the Golden Gallery, but it was a further 150 steps up and we were getting hungry, so we made our way back down to the floor and down into the crypt. To our surprise, we saw wedding guests coming out of a chapel! We later saw a large group of people dressed formally and ...