Express By Holiday Inn Stevenage

... On the northern side near 'Embankment' Station was the G20 summit and a heap of protesters - we are not going near that; we've had our excitement for the morning. National Threatre Back Stage Tour. We were lucky to join the National Threatre Back Stage Tour as we had no booking; it turns out there were 5 people who didn't show up for the tour; so we took their spot. (I forgot to ring in advance). First Up was the Sir Laurence ...

... to tip him at the end.<br><br><br><br><br><br> Avenue Q <br><br><br><br>If you haven't heard of this show, you soon will, because it's coming to Australia (Melbourne) in June. And it's a cracker of a show - absolutely hilarious! It's done with puppets in a Sesame Street style, but it completely turns any preconception you have on its head with a very politically incorrect, adult type of humour (a bit like South Park I guess). Deutsch was exhausted and decided ...

... Expensive, but it was money well spent! The first day we arrived very early, leave bags at the hotel, and since we could not even enter the room, we went back to a ... we put our feet for the first time in Hyde Park, Piccadilly .. i walk to More than anything a little exploring the area. We arrived at Trafalgar Square, where it had been a giant screen to follow the start of the Olympics! It was fantastic! We ...

... price dropped to 10£ a night. "Ok sure". We kindly accepted After dumping everything in the room, relaxing for a little while and getting changed we decide to step out to Queensway (closest shopping strip - literally 5 mins walk away) to look for food. Not knowing the area or the people in the area we thought we would play it safe on the first night and treat ourselves to KFC as we hadn't had junkie food for quite sometime. Even the Quick burger place in Paris was ...

... Walked over to Westminster Cathedral but decided not to go in. Walked along the back of the parliamentary buildings along the edge of St. James Park. Were surprised to see pelicans in the lake/pond (and a black swan). Caught the reverse end of the Changing of the Guard - the "Dismount Ceremony" at the Horse Guards Parade grounds. At Trafalgar Square the fountains were very refreshing, but the square was ...

We set off for a less used route up Snowdon from Rhyd Ddu. As we got out of the car, the wind howling past gave us a foretaste of what was to come. After about half an hour the rain started. And got heavier. And the wind got windier. And windier. We eventually reached the a ridge ...

After several false starts I was finally bussed out of the humorously-named Miracle Grand Hotel in the direction of Bangkok's shiny, new airport. The bus itself is worth mentioning. Once the luggage had been stowed and we were boarded the driver started us on our merry way by switching on the dimmed internal lights...and they were orangey-yellow disco lights. This was more than a little unusual but still did not prepare me for his next move ...

... like John, Keith, or Brian, began to revive the learning of old forgotten American blues tunes from vinyl recordings. Without any guidance, except perhaps from a brutish teenager, many drunken British children would spend hours alone in their cold musty ****-sodden bedrooms, listening to and learning from spinning black disks that enchanted them significantly. This unsupervised disaster ultimately led to them congregating in rather large crowds; and as if gripped by ...

Its crazy to think that this is my last ever blog entry and that my travelling tales are over ;( I have no idea where to start in summarising what has been an incredible 10 months for me in which I have fulfilled a massive ambition by travelling the world solo, round 11 countries spread across 5 continents! To do this I have ...

... more to our taste. After an hour's delay in our flight, we took off at 2.30 a.m. for London where we met up with Chris and have been busy catching up with him. Spent a good half hour with him and his flatmate getting their tiny courtyard in order, pruning roses and clematis. The daffodils are all out as are the bluebells in Chris' garden. We are here until Monday when we take off for Wales - Chris will be joining us for the first 2 days. Cheers Ron and Vivian