Astor Kensington
Travel Blogs from London
And then there were two
Julian and I had a leisurely sleep in to 9am compared to Ty and Heaths 3am - we had breakfast and discovered that we could take the train back into London rather than the bus/tube. Only cost us 11 pounds each for a day pass which we could use on any London transport for the whole day. We went back to the Astor Kensington to drop our bags off. We …
Back to London again
After our very late arrival back in London, we enjoyed a bit of a sleep in. We went back to the Borough Street Market for lunch - we had the delicious thai chili chicken wraps that Julian and I had discovered last year - so good! We then went to Convent Garden to show everyone the Canada pub called the Maple Leaf, then to Leicester Square to buy …
Cheers London!
Let me start this one by just saying...the last ten days were some of the most memorable of my life. They fit in perfectly within this year; the year in which so many of my dreams came true. It really is incredible all of the great things I've done this year, and I don't have time to recount everything...that will be a "end of the year" post. But …
London
I arrived in London Gatwick airport at 8.40am in the morning. I then caught a train to Victoria station, where I caught the tube to my hostel. I found my hostel and caught up with a friend who I'd met when I first came overseas, on my Greek Island hopping tour. I was really tired from flying so early in the morning, so we just hung out most of the …
Reunited
Today, we were reunited with our friends (well, it had only been ten days)! We met them at the Victoria train station at 9am and then went to the Whetherspoons to have breakfast. We tried to keep them up all day by showing them some of the sights. We took the bus from our hostel to Piccadilly Circus (where we had to buy umbrellas because it was so …