Royal Oak Sevenoaks

... refurbished, but is still cool. they also have old cars, computers, rockets, a particle accelerator from the '30s and one of the moon landers. then i walked through knightsbridge, kensington, chelsea, belgravia (which are like yorkville on steroids) then back to buckingham palace and westminster to get pictures that i couldn't take on the bikeride, then walked backed home. wednesday morning i went to trafalgar square, then walked to westminster abbey, which is very ...

On Fridya the 7th we got the opportunity to go to Brick Lane to have our (free!) Indian Lunch! It was REALLY good! I actually enjoyed most of the food. I really liked the chip starter thing that had a good mango sauce you could put on it, and I also really liked the naan bread and the chicken sauce curry with rice. WE then got to go on a led tour of Parliament. It was actually really good and informative. Unfortunately we couldn't take pics inside, but it was ...

We finished preparing the car! Took it on a 100 mile round trip around the Kent countryside - threw everything Kent had to throw at it - small ...

Again today we had a private tour guide, going into Westminster Cathedral to view the beautiful church, and to the Tower of London and Windsor Castle. We spent almost four hours at the Tower of London, learning about the history of the kings of England and what they did to their prisoners and wives, and viewed the Crown Jewels of England. These royal jewels date back almost 1000 years through the present, and are simply gorgeous. After ...

... solved and it would all make sense where these things come from and come together. * * * We realized not soon enough that we were to be cameraless during this weekend. My only salvation was a small ...

When did I ever think this holiday was a good idea? It has dawned on me that I must be bloody mad.... most people settle for a quiet fortnight - a break from the running around - some time chilling at home with the kids etc., etc. But what possessed me to feel it was going to be fun taking the three Herbert's round-the-world on my own!!! I may look back on this day in years to come and think how great it was ...

... a new teacher called Ms. Swaffer and Mrs. Green will be gone :o( <- not happy. Mum's spending a fortune on this holiday so I'm going to try my best to behave!!!!!! AND I'M MISSING A WEEK OFF SCHOOL ...

... to visit me (and take some of my mass accumulation of 'stuff' home). Tomorrow the 'work' segment of this working holiday will end. On Saturday my other sister will join the foray and together the Hardy's will head to Prague on Sunday until Tuesday, on Wednesday I will have my going away party and on Friday my mom, Devon and Kersten will fly back to North America and me and Lisa will board a plane to New Delhi to begin a 25 day tour of India. On ...

... had to be ready (our mini umbrellas were our best investment by far). Just a couple of days ago within a half hour we dodged hail, heavy rain, light showers, and basked in the sun. Wild stuff. Of course the pubs and the pints they served were also quite diverse. We honestly sampled dozens of different beers and ciders in countless pubs all with there own style. Each town or village had their own brewery carried in the local pub that of course was ...

... Priceline was located in Islington which is just north of London and required a line change onto the Northern line. Looking at the map on the wall of the train car I decided that instead of getting off at King's Cross which I figured would be awfully busy that time of the morning,I would get off at Euston to get onto the northern line and continue onto my stop at the Angel station. Oh boy was that a big mistake ...