Globetrotter Inn (No Facs) London

Exactly one year ago today I was flying in to London, England not knowing a soul in this packed, civilized country! I knew I had distant relatives in Scotland and a rugby friend that I travelled to Australia with in 2003 for the Men's Rugby World Cup but none greeted me at the airport like I did a fellow friend-of-a-friend Candian this past weekend. It was best for me to figure it out on my own when I first arrived because I was excited for the challenge as many others are but when I spoke to...

x

caught my flight and believe it or not had a bit of a celebrity spotting on the plane. i was sitting 1 row back from 1st class which was separated by a curtain. i will give up chocolate for a year if it was not jude law and his manager with some other english actor that is in one of the movies that netty is always watching sitting in front of me. when they walked onto the plane i was already sitting down and i seriously hope i wasnt sitting there with my mouth open but i was definately starin...

Hello Dan its Joe here. Its the 21st of December, and their ringing the last bell. So this is christmas? Right now im in London. Ive been here since Inverness so let me explain all the sh#t thats been goin down with da harden Aiiiiggghhht. Last thing i said was that i got on that bus to glasgow. I arrived in glasgow got a kebab and chilled out (it was raining - as it does). Hopped on the packed out bus at 10:30 for london. It really sucked though, because there was a double decker coach from ...

Kalannie, County Kerry, boasts a beautiful 10,000 hectare national park which is home to deer, squirrels and birds and fish species which are native to the region. The park came into being in 1932 when the Muckross Estate was presented to the Nation by Senator Arthur Vincent. An interesting feature of the park is Ross Castle, a fifteenth century tower house built on the shore of Lough Leane which was once the residence of the chieftain O'Donoghue Mór and is now open to the public. That mornin...

Well I finally made it out of Marrakech and to London. While Marrakech was defiantly an adventure, its a place I will not go again. The city was just too hard, being harassed every second made it almost unbearable. One day I took the bus tour which was good, the new city of Marrakech is actually quite nice, I didn't get to as much of it as I would have like with the fact that I got pretty sick and it was about 40 degrees out! So Marrakech was defiantly an experience, I think its countries lik...

09 Nov 2004, 11:00 am London, Globetrotters Inn Hostel The flight to Heathrow was a mixed-bag - the staff on Virgin Atlantic was excellent, but the seats were a little narrow and the food was just as bad as on every other flight I've ever been on. I managed to get some sporadic sleep in the semi-comfortable reclining seat, but I could just barely see the first class passengers in their seats that fold all the way down into beds, and it just made my seat seem even more uncomfortable. I can't i...

London/England: The People: The English are a decent bunch, no one ever offered me a cup of tea though, so they lose a few points. A shout-out to old ex-pats in Bill, who we pretty much spent half our time in London hanging out with. He works at a bar, it was a good situation for everyone. Ah, many stories can be told of the adventures that were had, the pictures are good enough though. Except there is no picture of me sleeping under Bill's bed, mostly cause his room was so very small and we'...