London School of Economics Northumberland House

After and overnight flight from NY to London in which neither boys slept as they were yet again feeding their screen addiction, as they have no DS or PSP with them, Chris the fabulous trip planner had decided that London was so expensive that we would stay in a hostel to save some coin. The Hostel took us about 1 hour 45 min to get to by train a...

Last time we were in London 8 years ago we saw a Starbucks and made a bee line for it thinking how much we had missed our American coffee. We were sadly mistaken, even Starbucks made weak coffee. Since then Rick Riordan and I have talked about London coffee and he has a friend from here that told him the coffee has improved. The morning followin...

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Today Luc and I took an hour long boat ride along the Tames river to go to Greenwich! The boat ride was fantastic - a really nice and different perspective of the city! We saw Big Ben, The house of Parliament, Shakespear's globe theater (the second one, first one was burnt down), St. Paul's Cathedral, and many many warehouses...

Well I am back in the truly cosmopolitan city of London and it has been a chilly reception. I don't mean the people - its the weather.When I boarded my BA flight out of Johannesburg,it was balmy 27 degrees Celsius. When I landed it was -3 degrees Celsius.It was a bit of a shock to the system but I took it with all the grace that I could. Mum and...

Cheerio! Time for some talk about London! We took a bus from Paris to London. Angie and I were both able to sleep a little one it. We have inflatable neck support pillows that have really come in handy. Angie is much better sleeping with them than I am, then, I've always preferred to stay awake. The bus stopped at the border, right before the En...

Right now I´m typing this at the Hansart´s, who use a different style of keyboard than Americans, so I´m going to type up an outline of the last few days and then flesh it out later. Tuesday the 8th - spent most of the morning checking out of St. Christophers, booking a new hostel and traveling. On the way, we went to Tate Modern, checked our ba...

Normalement j'aurai dû revoir Marie aujourd'hui, mais elle a du rester coincée devant un étalage de créateurs et oublier de me donner rdv... J'ai été au British Museum à la place, pour la visite la plus éclair qu'il soit. Le British Museum, c'est l'équivalent du Louvre pour les collections, toutes les époques depuis la Mésopotamie, sauf qu'ici l...

On the short walk from our hotel to the Royal Albert Hall I think we all felt elated, as though we were on the quest of a lifetime and knew we'd find our grail. We must have looked hilarious carrying our modified stilts and bizarre costume pieces along the London sidewalks. It was my first time in England. The previous evening I'd been out to se...

Yesterday we traveled to London by Train. We arrived about 11am (2 hr train ride) and had to use the restroom (called the Toilet or the Loo). Turns out you have to PAY to PEE! 20 pence (sp?) to use the toilet. Now I could maybe understand this if the toilets were actually nice but as much as I checked first, sure enough I sat down and got wet YU...