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Travel Blogs from London
Discovering the treasures of the British Library
The British Library has an absolutely amazing collection of historic treasures. In one room they house two of the four copies of the Magna Carta, handwritten Beatles song lyrics, manuscripts of Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll, music scores by Bach and Mozart, Shakespeare’s first folio, Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks …
The Colleges of Oxford
Another trip outside of London to Oxford today. Compared to Cambridge it was much busier and whilst there were plenty of people visiting the colleges there were just as many people shopping in the main street and shopping centres. Cambridge had felt like the city was built around the colleges, whereas in Oxford the town was just as prominent as the …
All good things have to come to an end
8 Countries, 16 flights, countless bus, train, rickshaw and bike rides later we are back in London.
We finished off where it all started in the Sussex pub in Covent Garden with a plate of sausage & mash and pint in hand. A fun night out with Nick was the perfect ending to the perfect trip.
Asia - Done
Who knows where to next...
The Halloween flight
While everyone else was preparing their fancy dress, Matt and I were packing ski clothes and walking boots for our extended weekend break in Iceland, hoping we'll see the northern lights. We managed to meet up underground at the tube platform in the evening rush hour, squeezing with our backpacks into the full trains. After a long ride on the Piccadilly line we arrived surprisingly on time at Heathrow and even had time for a great ploughman's platter with pork ...
"Fawlty Towers"
Blue sky! We wake to sunshine and blue sky despite a forecast with a 50% chance of rain! So the immediate decision is the Tower of London, keeping Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey for indoor days. The bus takes nearly an hour to reach Oxford Circus through grid-locked streets and the driver recommends swinging over to the tube. Grandma gets her first taste of the extensive passages and stairs of the underground. There are many more people at the ...