Thistle Kensington Gardens. London

Ok fine. That's not really all that fair is it? How about "Grey Skies..? You must be in London!" After the alarm went off at 0606 I rolled over, stretched, and realised that it was now 0730. Time to get up and get ready for an exciting day! 0830. Time for Breakfast! What a completely different setup! You have to wait to be seated! You have to give them your room number! We were seated, stood up and rushed towards the buffet. Before us lay breakfast sausages, scrambled eggs, poached (fried) eg...

After a lovely breakfast whilst sitting next to an English couple I couldn't understand so nodded politely and laughed when I thought was appropriate we took the Tube through to Waterloo (yes i too was singing the song after reading that) Station. 5 minutes from here stands a massive structure of steel and glass supported by two large cables rather than actual feet (think of lifting up a car to change the tyre). Fighting our way through the crowds we exchanged our vouchers for tickets and hea...

This is the one day that I have been looking forward to the most - only because I have heard how exciting the shopping is here. Not that I am discounting the past few days here. After a relaxing breakfast (actually we had to wait for about 15 mins because it was so busy - so relaxing it was to be!) we trotted off to Oxford Street, with, what I thought at the time, was a clever stop off at the post office to send some books home (and a top that I wasn't wearing at the time) as we may have a sl...

Breakfast, once again consisted of coffee, cereal, scrambled eggs, a very small helping of beans, and orange juice. Today was the day for a nice long walk. Up the road a little you will find Nottinghill. As we crossed the road and headed that general direction, along by the park we discovered a large amount of paintings hanging off the fence that were for sale. My guess is that every Sunday they set up a little market with paintings for sale etc. At around £20 for the smallest we decided agai...

Breakfast is getting worse as the week goes on - but it's still nice. We decided to hire a car today so that we could drive to Bath and Stonehenge for a bit of a gawk (10am). By the time we got our act together and got to the car hire place - Europcar - it was almost 11am...oopsie...oh wells still lots of time left in the day. After settling on a Polo Golf (for £76 for ONE day, plus VAT, plus congestion charges, plus insurance, plus something else = total of approximately £146 for ONE DAY). A...

You can tell when your almost ready to return home. You sleep in a little bit, take your time getting up in the morning. have a very lazy breakfast (that once again consisted of a lineup, and short wait), and just be slow, rather than trying to cram things in. After a slightly late start we headed off to the Getty Images Gallery. For those of you that aren't aware Getty Images provide photo's and video's that are purchased from the artist - or photographer - for a certain fee in order to rele...

Ok, that's still not quite fair is it? Wow. What a whirlwind tour. This morning consisted of possibly the most humerous breakfast we have ever had here. After arriving late downstairs for breakfast - and once again having to wait a little while - we were ushered to the back room of the restaurant (theres a back room?!?), which appeared to be used as a small conference room that would seat around 20 - 30 caberet style comfortably (if anyone ever needs to know that). One of the doors to this ro...

Royal Holloway is about a 40 minute trainride from central london.... needless to say I was in the city A LOT. It was where I stayed upon arriving to England, and I pretty much fell in love with it immediately. To me, it has all the coolness and vast diversity of New York, without the attitude.

I was lucky enough to see the majority of tourist-ish things in London, as well as some not so well known things. London at Christmastime is incredible... the lights and the ice skating and the...