St. Christophers Hammersmith London

Hi all im currently in London its Saturday November 8th and in a few hours I will be leaving here to head to Dorking, England where I will be doing 8 days of fun work for the National Trust and I dont think i will have internet. I will then be doing another 8 days of work for the National trust so im not sure if i will be updating my blog anytime soon. I will be heading off to Ireland October 22nd Saturday and will probly have computer access on October 23rd Sunday. I hope to get on before th...

Well, today we arrived in London and got off of the plane at about 8:00 local time. We then boarded a train to Hammersmith where we booked our first Hostel. It was only supposed to take a little bit but then because of reasons that we couldn't understand, it took us until after 10:00 to reach the hostel. We dropped our bags off and bought some one day passes for the Tube, the city's train system. We then took trains and saw Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, Big B...

Just trying to recover from a night of raving at Hardcore till I die in Birmingham so I will try and give a brief synopsis of the trip so far. Day one: Arrived in London in the evening of the 26th and went down to Jubilee walkway along the Thames by Parliment/Big Ben and across to the London all of which are impressive to see at night. Then headed back into the Theater district which is always hoping at night. Had dinner and some drinks down there and then headed back to Hammersmith where our...

God, we love this town. There are so many things to do, and so many ways to spend money. We crammed as much of both of those as possible into three days. We've been to museums, pubs, theatres, palaces, pubs, parks, restaurants, and pubs. It’s been an incredible introduction to Europe. Let’s recap those last few days:

Last Tuesday we flew from Boston to New York. We had a 6-hour layover at JFK, so we spent most of that day emailing, Skyping, and getting caught up on our pict...

On Thursday we took the train to London. Although I wasn't feeling too great I still managed to enjoy some of the Scottish and English countryside. We got into King's Cross Station at about 3pm and looked around for platform 9 3/4 but alas, like Harry Potter we couldn't find it and we didn't have any Weasleys to ask so we gave up. We learned later that they moved it and we would have had to ask someone and that was just too much for a couple 20 year-olds. We got situated in out Hostel (which ...

Well I didn think it would happen this early in the trip but it has, jake and i have gone seperate ways not cause of any issues just because we want to o different thigs,Jake is loving it in plymouh enjoying he ork where as i just didn like it, im not ready to stop traveling yet i havnt seen anywhere near enough of wat i want to, worked a couple of shifts and just thought i cant start workagain already no way! so iv come back to london, iv got the flu but nearly over it, planning where to go ...

Well booked a bus ticket to paris today! and strangely it costs only 41 pound which is weird seeing as a train ticket to plymouth costs 61 oh well im pumped about it and im already booked into a st christophers inn over there which is sweet coz i know they're really good! gone real tight on money atm got some real good tips froma chic called alex we met bout a week ago been keepin in contact with her so should be ble to stretch it out for a fair while yet! wandered around london again today s...