West 2 Hostel London

... dinner and drinks vouchers and travel back to terminal the next morning for a departure flight 11am. (just over 12 hours later). They also upgraded our flight to business class after a few discussions of extended honeymoon / trying to save the world etc. This meant we could take advantage of the fancy lounges at Terminal 5. Lots of champagne and luxury - V couldn't believe her luck! what a great start to the trip – thanks BA!

... the most perfect chocolate mousse.

It was great to see London at night... so many people out even though it was raining.. bright lights, shows everywhere, wanna stay here forever!!


Thursday 3rd September

Another great day in London town.... today we had a very touristy day! We started at the Tower of London... the fortress, the prison, the palace, the jail! We used the wonderful audio guide and went for a journey through the history of thsi amazing place ...

... other side of the street, if you want something to eat there is only one choice in this city. Every time I walked around that corner past the drug dealers and along the massive concrete sidewalks past the Macdonalds and KFC it made me think of the opening lines of my favourite Streets songs The Weak Become Heroes, and I used to think hmmm, I wonder, did Mike Skinner party here before he wrote The Week Become Heroes? *r is it merely a coincidence.
We had seating tickets ...

... to do the tour. So we skipped it. The story of the cathedral is pretty cool. It withstood the Nazi bombings during the Battle of Britain partially because of the volunteers who were stationed on top of the dome to douse any fires that started nearby.
We went walking and found ourselves at the Millenium Bridge. We walked across and walked by the Globe Theater. We also found a pub called The Walrus and The ...

After years of talking about traveling and various changes to proposed routes, our epic journey starts with a mad rush for the train to London from Liverpool Lime Street station. Due to a delay in obtaining our virgin train tickets from the ticket dispenser (The machine required us to insert the card that we had used to book the train on line, which, was months before hand, and prior to us getting all newly issued bank ...

... t try because we all know I would be terrible at that. I found a really cool pair of jeans and purchased those little suckers (surprise surprise). After that we came back to our hostel to eat and headed off to the London Dungeon. It is this "haunted house" type thing in London, but it walks you through all the murder mysteries and ways people have been killed throughout history in London. There were scenes for Sweeney todd, Jack the Ripper, etc. It was pretty cool ...

... for a spot of tea & scones with Lizzie. She has a very nice place: 600 rooms, but only lives in 12! That leaves 588 junk rooms! It was nearing 4pm by this time so we caught the tube to the East end of London (near Brick Lane) to meet Jen Pecotich. She's a friend Sherry works with who has taken 6 months off to bum around in the UK & Europe (and maybe do some work if/when she runs out of $$). Sounds alright huh? Caught up with her and ...

... inspiring sight. I can only look on and wonder how magical a scene this must be when spring has once more breathed life and colour through the valley and summer enveloped it in rich sunshine. In a couple of hours I shall reach Prague, the second leg of my all-too-brief tour of Europe. My first stop was Berlin, which you can read about in the next entry. But in case you're wondering why Germany is the first leg of an overland trip ...

... Ross finished work and was home around seven. He cooked us some dinner and we stayed in his room while he slept downstairs. He lives in a 3 story house share in a nice part of Kentish Town but he is moving out at the end of the month as the landlord is selling the place for over £1 million! We had a drink in the pub around the corner that is completely covered in hanging baskets and then retired for the night.

Greg and Leah Arrived at 5 in the morning after 28 hours on a plane and in airports and no idea where we were going. Caught the tube to Piccadilly Circus and used the Macca´s computers to find some accom. Walked to generator hostel (half an hour walk with packs) and hung around until we could check in at 2. After a walk and a read we went to Piccadilly circus to meet up with tobar and have a couple of beers. Thats all it took with very little sleep under our ...