Royal Adelphi Hotel
Travel Blogs from London
Em's house
finally after 14 hours sleep i am slightly back to normal or abnormal if you like. Done quick tour of Skelmersdale and been to one of the big shopping centres and believe it or not besides some food all i bought was a scarfe. its snowing now but seriously cant make up its mind cos one minute its sunny and the next its snowing. and i am now able to …
Remembrance Sunday and farewell to London
... is thought to have been like. The aim of everything is authenticity - even the costumes are painstakingly made using original techniques. A random fact: the first Globe Theatre burnt down in Shakespeare's time, during a performance of Henry VIII when a cannon had to be fired from the roof. A piece of burning wadding landed in the thatched roof and the whole theatre went up in flames. Fortunately everyone got out in time. One man's breeches had caught fire but this was ...
Crazy transport!
... germany and china no one knows where my bag is! Not a happy bunny! I literally have a pile of work and pile of chocolate my medical kit and a jumper and its boiling here! So yay if it doesn’t turn up I will be wearing duvay covers for 4 months! So I trekked out of the airport baggless hoping my lift was still there. There was a man with ELixabetwoodJane written on a piece of paper and I went over to say hello and check he was for me and ...
Olympic Feaver in London
Saturday 11th August
From here it was back on the highways and driving 4 hours all the way back to London only stopping for a burger king lunch. We eventually made it to the Heathrow Hertz rental place, after some traffic jams and navigation fits, where we drop off and said goodbye to the car that we had had for 2 weeks. After some minor issues dropping off we got a taxi and headed ...
Because Shouting Fixes Everything
... flat when the class went to Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park.
I have never before been in a place with such a concentrated amount of close-minded people yelling at other close-minded people at the top of their lungs about mainly two highly controversial topics: either politics or religion. When we went, there were probably seven different Soap Box Speakers spewing out their opinions at crowds mostly eager to see a few individuals in the masses arguing ...