Phew - we have been busy, busy tourists! We had a successful Ryanair flight over to London on Tuesday. We arrived and checked into our hostel in a rather posh neighborhood near Victoria station. Tired and hungry we were able to stumble into a nice pizzeria (Pizza Express - thanks John!) for some tasty food before stumbling into bed. In the morni...

Hello again everyone. We finally managed to snag some internet time in Italy so I thought I would tell you about our adventures in London. I will try to organize things better when I get more time. For now you just have to suffer through my verbal diarrhea :S Day 1: Just to let everyone know ... the incident with the pocket knife at the airport ...

I got up really early this morning because I was super nervous and excited for my upcoming trip. The night before, I had set out everything that I wanted to bring, but I needed to go out and buy a bag to bring it in. Ryanair is the name of the airline that we had booked our flight with, and since they are a discount airline company, they have lo...

I told the people at Palmers Lodge what had happened, and just like typical Londoners, they were extremely concerned and sympathetic. Immediately, one of the men behind the desk told that I would be taken care of completely, and not to worry about lodging or food because they would make sure that I was taken care of. Cindy had lent me money to b...

Finally I can get myself to a computer to blog a brief entry! Sorry for my slacking, but I haven't been in Rome for the past week or so as we had our Northern Cities field trip. We traveled to Venice, Florence, Pienza, and a few other hill towns. We had an excellent time in all three places, although I was bummed to not go on a Gondola ride in V...

Entry 3 of a trip titled: The Egyptian and European Lifetime Adventure

Ok so where do I begin... Ah yes... I was born in 1982, Cobar. It was a glorious time for the whole family......... Just joking!! The travel begins in Aus, ends in Aus but has 20 countries inbetween. Egypt, Korea, England, Scotland, France, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Monaco, Holland, Slovenia, Greece, Greek Islands (whoo), Austria, Switzerland, Err... I'm sure there's more there but who can remember?!?! Anyway read, and enjoy. If not, bugger off and do something else!

So after two nights in Bath, I think I'm ready to brave London! I took a bus from the Bath bus depot to Heathrow and then the tube from Heathrow to my Hostel. P.S. If you are ever staying in London..... stay at Palmer's Lodge hostel. It is AMAZING, it's in a beautiful Victorian mansion in a gorgeous part of London- the staff is nice, it's close ...

So I finished my stint in Amsterdam and I went out with a bang. I spent my last day at the moderm art museum which was pretty cool. They only had on exibit open so it was half price. Some really cool things to see. The exibit totally focused on video and light. Lots of flat panel displaying mind blowing things. That night Holland was playing in ...

The ride under La Manche was suprisingly short, leaving Paris (Gare du Nord) at 14:13, I've arrived to London (St. Pancras) at 15:26 (local time, mind the 1 hour difference in time zones). Unlike Paris, London's train stations and "Tube" (subway) are very well-organized and clean. I easily bought a multiple ride Oyster card and found my station,...

Just a quick list of sights I visited: 1. The Tower (including the Crown Jewels, the most expensive jewellery collection, including the 503 carat diamond, Beefeaters and ravens) 2. The Tower Bridge (don't confuse with London Bridge, which does not have towers on top!) 3. Cruise on the Thames river 4. The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben 5. Westm...

Started the day by taking a wonderful free tour of the old part of London: the City. The tour covered: 1. Briefly the Tower and the Tower Bridge 2. HMS Belfast and the river Thames 3. Old Fish Market 4. The National Bank 5. St. Paul's cathedral 6. Millenium Bridge (a.k.a. Wobbly Bridge) 7. Temple, the lawer area 8. lots of interesting and funny ...

Sinse Bath was a part of the Stonehenge trip, I got to see it once again. And this time I visited the actual roman bath, built senturies ago when Britania was a small part of the Roman Empire. It is believed that the hot spring was used and worshipped even before the romans, by celtic tribes. Celts built a shrine dedicated to goddess Sulis, whic...

Went to see Abbey Road and Sherlock Holmes museum before the flight to Munich :)

Well I have officially made it through a whole day in London, England. My flight left Saturday night from Detroit at 9:20pm and arrived in London at 10:05am in London (5:00am Michigan time.) It took me a little bit to figure out the subway, "the tube" or the "metro" but after I got to the hostel, I have it down now. It's very cool here because a...