Kings Arms Hotel Berkhamsted

We are calling today Stair Day. We climbed and climbed at the British Museum, took the tubes with stations that had no escalators and lots of stairs and walked up Medieval stairs in the Tower of London.

We started the day out quietly. I popped down to the breakfast room and had tea, coffee, juice, toast, one bite of a terrible sausage ...

0700, up and showered. The hotel deal is Room Only and the BA Lounge in Terminal 5 serves up some great bacon rolls for breakfast so no £15 each breakfasts for us. We checked out at 0730 and walked back along Bath Road to the bus stop we got off at last night. Today's free public bus is the 423 that takes 7 minutes to round get to Terminal 5. We...

The Track past Slough. Windsor Castle. We got ourselves to Paddington and then got on a Great Western Train to Slough. The train was express for about 10 minutes and wow it motors along - I reckon more than 100KPH. We got off at Slough and on another train and got to Windsor with the other zillion people. Handed in the London Pass at ticket box ...

The daunting 24 hour flight from Sydney to Heathrow was praying on our minds for a few days before we left. Thanks largely to the attentive and sympathetic cabin staff, the perfectly acceptable airline food and drink and the excellent in-flight entertainment system, it was all very easy to cope with. We were gently awoken to eggs and bacon about...

I woke up this morning at 8.30am after finding out that Hawthorn had won the AFL grand final. I was planning to get up at 5am to go with dad to an Aussie AFL Grand Final celebration but being under 18 I wasn't allowed to go. I got dressed before heading down with the family to breakfast that was provided by the hotel we were staying at. I decide...

I arrived at London Victoria station in the later afternoon of Tuesday. I was on my way to meet Paul, another couchsurfer who I would stay with the next four days. I took the tube to Charring Cross and from there I had to take the train to Barnehurst, a suburb of London. From the station I texted him that I am on my way and I got a message back ...

Ok. The Supercar tour for most attendees starts Saturday with a few laps around Brands Hatch race course in South / East London. Well, I had a commitment to take my son Nick to a chess tournament in North Wales for the weekend, national championships for which he/ his school had qualified. Well, when I explained this to the Supercar Tours people...

Hey all, well now that we have finally decided that we are going to leave London this year, we have started to do all the little things that we have wanted to, but not quiet gotten around too. This started with Windsor castle, a few weeks back. We took Clive out for a day trip, only about 1hr away. It is a nice little town set on the Thames rive...

We made it!! (Yes, we're as surprised as you are) First things first, fly Virgin and watch Surf's Up, the penguin cartoon movie. The flight was great, especially after the fire alarm went off six times at Newark airport at the ********* of dawn... I've never been so relieved to get on a transcontinental plane. So we got to London last night and ...

Hello everyone, Sorry I haven't written in my blog in a while. I have been so busy with first nice weather, then exams and I couldnt really get online over spring break. Now Mom and Dad are here, so these blogs are going to be sort of short. Oh, plus I cant put up any new pictures because Dad has my camera. The first place I went on spring break...