London City Hotel

... him out). First, we set off for the National Gallery to see "Corot to Monet," a fresh look at landscape, per the brochure. The show ends on Sunday, so it was fairly crowded; most irritating were pontificators standing in front of paintings and blathering while polite people waited to look, but then, this is by no means unique to England (art crank!). A satisfying show. My God, how loose and luscious the ...

... br>Now we sit in our hotel room. I am surrounded by very unusual things. The beds are small and they are on wheels. The toilet is separate from the sink. All the light switches are outside the actual rooms. There's a "Trouser Press" on the wall. Sharon couldn’t figure out how to open the door to get out of the room. When she finally figured it out, she went down stairs and ...

Our last day in Spain was wonderful, yet sad! We spent a better part of the morning at the rooftop pool at the hotel before heading out for the day. We walked to Montjuic where we visited the Museum of sports and the 1992 Olympic stadium...we headed to the airport and had a nice, slightly delayed, flight to London!

Today Luc went with dad to see two ...

... best
thing Ive ever witnessed but still good fun.



After staying with Zul i travel north
to Highgate to stay a couple of nights with my cousin Matt and his
wife Sarah. Sat arvo we go for a walk thru the local villages with a
stop in Hamstead heath, one of London's largest parks and placed on
the hill gives it a great view over the city. Meet a bunch of Matt
friends at the pub. On Sunday Matt and i head down the ...

... zone to which I was travelling. They dimmed lights, served breakfast at dinner time, dinner at lunch time, and made lots of offers of water to keep me hydrated. They no longer provide those eye masks which would have helped or the mini tooth brush and tooth paste I was counting on to make me feel fresh... So here's my recommendation for the first thing to do in London following a half ...

... a dog, to be checked. (That was at another time in the day, not when we had the cases.) Anyway at Waterloo Station we not only had to sign that this was our luggage & that we had packed it ourselves, etc, but also it was X-rayed before being deposited in the left luggage area. It also was quite expensive. We had the 2 cases & attached to one bag was a plastic bag containing Guinevere's silk bouquet of flowers from last night. They wanted to charge us for that too, so instead ...

... London Eye which I had long wanted to do. The view from the top was very spectacular and when we got off we happily met up with Mike's parents, Alex and John, who by chance were in London on the same day as us! It was really lovely catching up with them both. We had a delightful walk along the Thames with them and a very nice meal at Brown's Restaurant although I only had soup. Then I caught a taxi back with John as I needed a nap whilst Alex, Mike and the kids stayed ...

... have hardly seen them. Its been an emotional week had the best night out on friday i think it was a blur after 11am and i ended up packing with a hang over. Thank you for all coming i will miss you all loads. I started crying on sat night after charlies engagement party i probebly cried on friday too i just don t remember. So by the time i actually fly to sydney i think ill be all cried out. Got go out to the pub for yet another drink today :-)

... bit of research I found that Halifax on the East coast has an average winter temperature of 0◦C but still gets 90cm of snow. Excellent. I'm on my way to Toronto now as I have to attend an orientation in the morning, where the Canadian equivalent of BUNAC will help us open bank accounts, fast-track our Social Security Numbers (National Insurance) and generally hold our hands until we get our bearings. After that - we're free to go.

... Clare finally seemed relaxed and happy in her surroundings (until she lost her phone and had to go back for it) and splashed out at £ 5 each on a few colorful cotton singlet type things. Clothes shopping is her favorite. Surely there are enough garments no put a way already! Overall Camden is very convenient, as its close to Clare's work, and had a good vibe. Our flat is a bit noisy being on the High St, but I think we are slowly getting used to it. It's a bit ...