Travelodge Kingston Upon Thames Central

... Very historic place, somewhere around was where the Magna Carta had been signed. X didn't mark the spot, but there was a memorial for it !!!

Under the M25, we were now in what some people say is London, even though we were in Surrey !!! Then along came Staines. There were some interesting sculptures of swans. Bit different to the ones we had been seeing. Into Chertsey, which for you cricket lovers out there, it ...

... thousands and thousands of people long on the field outside the premises. We were informed by a helpful woman that the earliest we would get in was 6pm, after which of course there would be relatively little tennis to be seen. Needless to say, we didn't hang around. Instead, we decided to return tomorrow.

Instead, we went to Harrods. If you've never heard of it, Harrods is a massive department store in Knightsbridge, London. It's ...

... renamed Murray's Mound we hear) and were blown away by the vista over the whole area. We had seats for court 3 and matches commenced there at noon so we took some time to wander and experience the atmosphere. People were enjoying picnic lunches, champagne and pimms.
We checked out the program and were disappointed that no Aussies were playing today other than James Kerr in a doubles match on court 19 ...

... winter-but have heard it is good. *National Gallery An amazing collection of all the works of the greats you have heard of: Turner, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh to name but a few.......and has from the very old to the more modern. Though am rather confused.......saw Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' back in Amsterdam...and again here at the National Gallery?!! If anyone can enlighten me??? (Have just checked it out-Van Gogh did a few sunflower paintings which is why there is one ...

... before we went to dinner, on the way home in the Metro - the smell by this time was quite overpowering and sickly, and we could hear comments from all over the train about the smell, every now and then Dennis would let a bit more of the smell out of the bag to noises of disgust from other commuters and giggles from our group. After the markets we went to the O2 arena for some lunch ...

... after spending 6 months in London. Aside from that, it's a grouse place, and I've really enjoyed my time here. Here are a few tid bits, observations and thoughts that have popped into my mostly empty and vastly under utilised scone over the past 12 months, in alphabetical order: Poms love to queue. It's a national ...

You're gonna love this. I knew my education would come in handy for something, if very little. I've been to two West End productions this week, and I obviously loved every minute of both of them. (If any one asks me why only two, i swear to god i'll punch you. you know if i could have i would have.) The first was William Wycherley's 1675 play The Country Wife, which is utterly filthy... all about men who want to sleep with married women, men who don't ...

We of course had our usual 8:00 am breakfast at Cafe Mocha! For class we talked about Leadership and Winston Churchill, at least that's what our readings were about. But, we actually spent most of our class talking about women and leadership and just women's position in society. Then, we of course walk to get sandwiches for lunch...ugh...then we made it over to the Churchill War Rooms. Basically, when London was being bombed during World War II, they built ...

... if you can get it through a website like Priceline or Hotwire or have the means to stay there I highly recommend it. the hotel was a wonderful place to stay. I entered the lobby about 11am,check in was not until 3pm but I wanted to drop my bags off with them so that I could start looking around. Well the wonderful man at the front desk he was checking out my reservation and when he realized I had just gotten off ...

... in my empty backpack......) Love you all lots and will miss you, email me! Tchau, beijos, Laura xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ps it's taking a million years to upload the photo's and I really really do have to pack now (I leave my house in 9 hours..... arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhh hhhh