Golders Park Hotel London

... excited about that class. We are also seeing a lot of plays for school, so I'll probably come back extremely knowledgable about everything British!

There is a really fun group of people on my program that I've met that has all been hanging out together. Last night a group of us book a hostel in Paris for the beginning of September. There is enough of us that we were able to reserve one room for all of us. Today we are going to get ...

Before moving on to my adventures in England, I have to summarize the top 5 for Ireland:

1) Kayaking in Dingle was AMAZING!!!

2) Kilkenny was an amazing time between roaming the castle, being a a real Irish town, and the impromptu pub crawl with David, Mike, Michelle, and Mora.

3) Meeting Jill & "Those Guys" in Galway. In fact, this may be the best place ...

... ears and hadn't heard us). The lady looked at me and said "Thank You" and we all breathed a sigh of relief. I think I must be paranoid what with hearing a bomb the day before and finding a left bag today. Just a little on edge LOL. Anyway we got off unscathed and went up two really long escalators to Harrod's. What a huge place and we only went thorugh a little bit. The food halls were very interesting but hugely pricey and on our way out hte door we went up the Egyptian escalator and ...

... We ran inside, put on some more suitable clothes and raced back out into the first proper t-shirt weather we had felt in London. By this time it was about mid-day so we decided to stop off at a pub on our way into town and have some breakfast /lunch. The pub was directly across the road from Clapham Common tube station and there was an outside table in the sun available. Excited at the prospect of sunshine and beers, I ran as fast as I could so no one would beat ...

... the major sights of London: Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, the South Bank, Parliament. We've also got a very good tour guide who will be on all our tours. She's a little old British lady who has great stories about every sight and throws in a lot of witty comments to our delight. Her accent is so enjoyable one of the students asked if she'd read Harry Potter to his wife. Last Friday my flatmate and I walked around Soho and stopped at some pubs during Happy Hour ...

... service where I was sitting. The bartender told me that I had to order all of my food at the bar and they would bring it to me. OK, of course it would have been nice had the servers who saw me sitting there for 20 minutes without anything to eat or drink had told me that! Anyway, I ordered a cider and fish N chips and in a few minutes, everything arrived. I should have taken a picture of this meal - it was green peas, soggy french fries, and a huge ...

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson




Day 1 : 8th May 2008 (Thursday) Hitting the ground running in fabulous London! AKA Schlepping across the Thames, thrice AKA Mayhem on the Tube

Today was our first big day, and we might have been a little overly ambitious looking at the list of sights we wanted to ...

... the theatre (long story), which proved surprisingly difficult given that it was only two blocks away. Once again, I relied on the "walk one block and cross-check street signs and map" method. Of course, what I really should have brought was a compass. How dorky is that, checking a compass at a random London intersection? Ha. After our tickets were safely in hand, we set out for the Tate Modern ...

... env... ou tour de 2-2 heures... 4 trajets en train.. doommage avec le recul.. je conseil trop de prendre le train chaque fois que vous pouvez.. trop mieux que le bus.. je sais plus combien de nuits dans les dortoirs infectes de 4 a 98 personnes.. salle de bain et toilettes a partager avec des gens pas toujours tres hygieniques.. je crois que ceux qui voyage a deux ou trois et font presque que des chambres double, triples se rendent pas comptes comme ca use et fatigue.. a la ...

... winning £40 pounds as well. But i am never that lucky and with 2 minutes to go, Shrewsbury get a corner and their whole team including the goalkeeper comes up into the opposition penalty area. It is half-cleared and falls to Sammy Igoe, probably the slowest player on the pitch, who is clean through starts dribbling to the goal 65 yard away. Willing him to shoot and miss or for a Shrewsbury player to take him down he ...