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Travel Blogs from Gerrards Cross
Its the Final Countdown...
... date: my Year Abroad in Mexico. This year, I will be working as an English Oral Teacher at the Universidad del Caribe for 9 months, whilst struggling to write a 6,000 word research project, in Spanish.
Despite what has been written in the media recently, and the look of sheer horror from my family as I told them that I wanted to apply to live in Mexico for a year... I cannot wait to start my life living in one of the most ...
Entry #3: The worst part of London; its Pollution
... even if garbage bins were only few meters away because they said that a person was paid to pick it up. Result: restaurant was really dirty.
Public transport:
In London public transport is absolutely genial except ending time. It is so good that everybody goes out in bus or tub. The bicycle is used a lot by the youth population and only taxis drive on the street. However in tub stations, we can see on walls pollution caused by tub. Also, in ...
Day 2 in London
... of these guys for a couple of years so it was lovely to finally be able to put faces, rather than avatars, and voices to the names. We shared drinks at our apartment before heading out, once again, to the Crown and Two Chairmen where I had booked a table for dinner at 7pm. We had a great meal and even better chat for quite some hours. There was one funny incident though and it rested with the gentleman sitting just to my right, along a ...
Big Ben, London Eye, St. Pauls Cathedral.....
... s right down the street from where we are staying so it’ll be great to go to on Saturdays! We walked around the whole area and decided to take the tube to Westminster which is where Big Ben, all of Parliament and the London eye are. We walked up and saw Big Ben right away, it was huge and just what I remembered. My parents took my brother and I to London when I was 13 and I loved it. To be honest that’s the reason I ...
It's LIKE New York, but is actually, well, London
... that for the last two and a half years, I've been walking to work past what was the Necropolis Railway at 121 Westminster Bridge Rd. Until being bombed out during the war, the "Graveyard Express" used to take coffins and mourners from London to the Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, which has been set up in the 1850's after the city's graveyards were full to overflowing with the victims of cholera and smallpox epidemics. Ah the filth and pestilence ...
Location
Other places to stay in Gerrards Cross
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The Bull Hotel
Oxford Road, Gerrards Cross | 4 star hotelfrom $129 -
Ethorpe Hotel
85, Packhorse Road, Gerrards Cross | Hotelfrom $86
