Marriott Exec Apts London

... dia estaba gris, bien tìpico londinense pero aun así estaba todo tan lindo!!

Un dia nos despertamos con muchas ganas de conocer donde vive la reina y partimos rumbo a Buckingham Palace. Habia un sol divino, tuvimos suerte de ver el sol en esta época del año. Después de un buen desafío frente al mapa de los colectivos colorados (double deckers) el 74 nos dejó a pocas cuadras del palacio real. Subimos al primer piso y nos sentamos en la ...

... since it's west of school down Strand Street. Lots of people out and about. Saw a giant chess game taking place there. It was the British champion against some other dude. People were sitting all over the steps up to the National Gallery just to watch. It was pretty cool.

We took the Bakerloo Line down from Piccadilly Circus to get to Elephant and Castle. There's a shopping center there that just has loads of inexpensive ...

... eradication of Jews and other minorities . It was very graphic but very necessary so as not to forget this was real and not that long ago. Wayne and Bob had top call me away, as usual I get stuck in museums reading everything on show. We were ready for lunch by this time and went to a pub for a Thai meal which was yummy and then we set off looking for a replacement computer as we needed to get one as our old mate had frozen dead. Bob would send our old one ...

... return him to sender. At least British Air has decent food on its flights, better than many of its restaurants. So we get into LAX an hour late. I’ll stay for the night then go to Mexico for some R&R.

It’s all over but the body count and the ritual chewing of cud in the fourth stomach. The trip had its ups and downs. Ethiopia is one incredible place, its culture alive and kicking after a disastrous experiment with Stalinism, but ...

Good morning!  Yesterday was my first day in the archives, so I had to blog about it for all of my nerdy friends.  Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures for this post because the British Library (BL) is majorly strict about not taking them, so you'll have to use your imagination on this one. The British LOVE their history which both assists and limits the job of historians researching it.  The BL has a tremendously efficient system ...

... work out whether or not to give the bouquet of silk flowers away, or to try to keep it as a souvenir. Just what I need to worry about when trying to think about packing for heading home in a few days! I have to say that I felt a bit of an idiot walking back to the hotel through the very crowded theatre district, with me carrying a bouquet. Before & after the theatre performances there are a huge number of people about. A few times I've felt intimidated by the ...

... great, and people watching from a Pret A Manger round the corner. Note to self, find good coffee place when in St Georges... The briefing was extremely helpful and I have plenty of ideas now about lesson planning etc. I met a few people going to the Beauce region (fantastic!) as well as a couple of the others. Luckily everyone seems really nice and I'm now really looking forward to going...

... that we have posted from St Petersburg, Berlin, Madrd and now France. Our next destination was a bookshop back in Montmarte that had closed for lunch when we had attempted to visit it yesterday. The bookshop sold graphic novels (comics if you must) and I wanted to check it out. We caught a bus from near the Hotel Richard to Gare du Nord, the train station from which we would catch the train to the Charles de Gualle airport latter in the day. We timed the trip so we knew ...

... food. And it smelt so good, so Justine got rice, Erin got rice with some sort of mystery meat on top, and I had vegetable curry (which had OKRA in it!! I was so excited!) Then we went to Notting Hill Gate, and got out to see if Portobello Market was up and running. And it definately wasn't. ust a road. An exceptionally long road, but still a road. I took pictures. ( I have a grand total of 219 pictures so far.... I'm doing well.) After that ...

... I, living the life... lots of money... lots of girls... just sinning away his life... Now he stands on the corner of the street in one of Europe's most poluted cities... breathing in toxic fumes and exhaling righteousness... And he's doing it just for you... He wants to save you... He wants to SAAAAA-AAAAA-AAAAAAVE your souls ...