Rosedene Hotel Victoria London

... is only served 7- 8:30am - I guess he doesn't believe in late mornings - even for tourists!

Onto the British Museum - it had over 7 million objects and begin over 250 years ago. You better have good walking shoes before you go it is huge!Hilights would be - seeing the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Stones but there are so many notable objects to see - the Lewis Chessman, an Easter Island statue, the Sutton Hoo ship burial. The mummys are hugely popular (we ...

... in Britain, just as there has been in Seattle, Portland and the Bay Area. First let's talk about the beer. It has exploded and everyone, everywhere is making old fashioned ale. From Orkney in the north to Salisbury in the south, they are brewing local ales and pulling them from casks by hand pumps. Philip will write up the real finds when we get home. In these pubs ...

... time. Seriously. Seriously awesome.

After the London madness had ended, I took a bus to Dover to spend a day before taking the ferry to France. I heard Dover had a castle and some cliffs, and I wanted to see. The castle was a lot better than I had expected, I wasn’t sure if I would be into that. But Dover Castle was huge, at least it was huger than any castle I’ve ever been to before. Lots of history ...

Today our whole school program went on a tour of Brick Lane, the Spitalfield area and a river boat tour down the Thames.

Spitalfield was a cool neighborhood area with eating and shops. There was also a street market today with lots of people selling clothes, jewelery, accessories. I got a necklace with a real flower in it. We ate lunch in this area at a place called Leon's. Then we walked through the street market looking at all of the goodies.

The ...

... On Monday a huge day in London on a tour in an open air double decker bus, seeing all the sights. Walked all around my old neighbourhood in Kensington, caught a cute cab to Harrods. Being my usual keen self to taste all the free samples in the food hall, chipped a tooth on an olive stone (stupid idiot...serves me right). Then off to see my favourite London westend musical..Blood Brothers, sheer brilliance ...

... I am using it as a hub and will be coming back through during my time in Ireland...she assures me it WILL happen and I should be prepared for that. I could have cried. What did I do that was so wrong?? I reapplied for a visa in the hope I would be reconsidered...but after paying my money and being rejected, I thought that was the end of it. If I'd known it would haunt me forever, then maybe I would have reconsidered the application ...

So this weekend was a lot of fun. I was out and around the Piccadilly Circus area and Covent Garden. The area had lots of nice stores and pretty shops. Most of the stuff was expensive and I stuck to my promise and did not buy a thing, I spent enough money at Camden Market. I also went with some friends to the Tate Museum. Admission was free as it is in many of the Museums here. It was very interesting and the art work was just stunning. My favorite painting that I saw was The ...

... I currently do not have enough doxycycline pills, I forgot to get enough pills for my back, I didnt say bye to everyone that I needed to, I dont have any reading material (and being in an airport for 7 hours without reading material is a long 7 hours), and I am very worried that I have forgotten to do something - what that is I dont know, but I just cant get rid of that niggly feeling ...

... day and then just had to stay within close proximity to a toilet for the rest of the time. I was still sick when I got back into London so decided to prescribe myself some random antibiotics from my first aid kit (ah, remember that massive first aid kit travel peoples? It grew! My mum put, like, twice as much stuff in it before I left for Costa Rica! Im well stocked still if anyone needs any medication!). I eventually got better, and am now feeling just peachy! Although Costa ...