Nutfield Priory Hotel & Spa London

I apologise for the silence. I have been in the English countryside living a quiet life away from the hussle and bussle of the city. It has been a nice little adventure, and it is continuing pretty much until i go home on Tuesday. I just simply cannot afford to partake in any more ...

... right in the middle of the city and it is pretty bad-ass. The place has been built and destroyed over the years and even has a few parts built by the Romans that are barely standing. I only planned on spending about 2 hours there but there was just so much to see I stayed for 3 hours I think. First I headed to the Royal Jewel collection. They had crowns galore, orbs, spheres on display and some were dated hundreds of years ago. They even have the world's largest diamond in ...

... is just a snapshot of this unique and so 'British' place called England!
I wish I had more time to document all of my experiences, but internet time is valuable at the hostel where we are staying here in London. There are not many computers to go around. In order to get to a computer I have to wake up really early. I was lucky to get a computer during a reasonable time tonight. It's because everyone is at the bar partying ...

... converter box of some kind that weighed about 30 pounds. We plugged it in and it blew some circuit taking out an entire wall of electronics in our room. Crisis 2 started.

5. When Bernie called for a wake-up call to make sure we were up in time this morning. When guest services asked if there was anything else, she said, 'Well, actually...' She explained what happened to guest services. All the while Steph and I were cracking up. I was hollering: 'They're going to kick ...

... it up. Work...hmm...yeah. Possibly the one thing that is stressing the hell out of me. For anyone hiding under a rock or living on Mars, we're currently in a recession and it's no more evident than here. From what i've seen, it's really affected anyone who has anything to do with trade - especially with the US and Asia. Once i have a National Insurance number, i'll hit up the TV stations, but until then there's not really ...

... when in the Industrial Age, people in London would throw waste out the windows. But the city was extremely clean, the roads were crazy small and congested, and the cars were like nothing in North America. I remembered back to American Beauty, when the Kevin Spacey said " sthere's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a ...

... starting to get sore and we were hungry so we went to Prêt near St Martins In the Fields for lunch, then walked up to Piccadilly Square to go to Lilywhites to look for a Sheffield United shirt for Tom. Couldn't find one, but bought plenty of other stuff. At this point we decided we had had enough and went back to the Hotel for a rest. Rang Mum on Skype. Went to the Pub for the Sunday night Roast special . Monday 7/4/08

... the insurance company to confirm they would pay the hospital bill & book us a flight home, oh boy did they give us the run around all day until we said if something wasn't sorted out quick we would put an official complaint in, that seemed to do the trick & at 2.30 am at our request they confirmed we would be on a Qantas flight to the UK late on Friday night. So at both Bangkok & London Airport's I was put in a wheelchair & jumped ...

... and rolling r's. We got to the hotel - Hotel Oliver. 'Tis quite nice, I like the people at the reception. The room's rather big, and with a nice view to the Cromwell Road. We had a bit of trouble finding the Science Museum, but we got there at last. It wasn't too bad. There weren't many activities, like I had thought, but it was really big with loads of exhibitions - it's in the Exhibition Road. We went to a 3D cinema there, about ...

... to think they were staring 'cos it's such a damned classy thing to do.... you know, stare in awe at your meal and then take an excessive amount of pictures of it. I probably committed a million faux pas, like eating one item with wasabi that was actually meant to be eaten with pickle... I figure I'm going to put my foot in my mouth countless times over the next two weeks, so I might as well start as I mean to continue!