Celtic Hotel London

... had a relatively unveventful and pleasant flight over to London. We arrived on July 8, about 6:30 a.m. London time and took a shuttle to our hotel, the Celtic Hotel, near Russell Square in Central London. The hotel is quite quaint but decent enough and ...

... . Plus, it was an easy way to see the major sites-- like the Tower Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, The London Eye, Parliament and Big Ben-- without paying ...

... exceptional!  We jumped on the 'tube' as soon as we cleared customs and got off almost at the front door of our little hotel near Russell Square.  Poor Min has had trouble with her interac card so that it is first on our list to fix ...

... through and looking around Glasgow airport.  It is surprisingly large and well set up, they even have the good taste to have a Celtic shop.  I resisted the urge to buy more stuff, maybe on the homeward journey, when I know just how much room I ...

... Europe, including France, so Glen and Martyn had decided to cash in Glen’s France → Australia plane ticket for 2 x France → London return airfares and make a surprise visit to all their friends keeping it real in London. The surprise was a ...

... - the address. Being the educated, mature couple that we are, we decided it best to wander the streets of southern London looking for the hotel. This didn't work very well, but luckily we found the hotel after about 30 minutes or so. Better yet, the ...

... we caught a train back to the hotel. DAY 29 WED At last! The day we had been anticipating since arriving in London; shopping day! We reached Harrods half an hour before its 10am opening time and found that the Diana/Dodi tribute window only occupied ...

... as the next day it was up and back to Stanstead to catch our flight to Dublin for some Celtic Connections! This was, irnonically, my first "proper" visit to London. Having ever only been to London before for my Nova interview and to catch the flight to ...

... near our hotel. The rain complicated finding our way around a bit, but we found our hotel with little trouble. Our hotel is basically a block from the London Eye (which is roughly $20 a person to ride, btw), so the big landmark didn't hurt our efforts. ...

... Labatt Blue (oh, we do have Guiness too if you want) and played alternative music? Hmm... ok. I was hoping for some fancy Celtic jigs and reels, as Irish bars usually play, at least once in awhile throughout their shuffle. Oh well! We settled on one ...

We are having a very packed itinerary!!  We both have burnt shoulders (that reminded us that despite being in rainy?? old England we still need cun block - we now have 30+  I am going to try to load some photos...after I write about it!!  ...

... London, Insight tour (more about that in tomorrow's blog) I think I would come again, with some changes made. I'd change the London hotel, maybe come at a different time when the crowds are lower, and not choose Insight again. Would probably do a lot ...

... enough though I'd seen it all before, even seedier, in King's Cross. We dined at The Country Pub in London, just around the corner from our hotel. My bangers and mash was OK but we were not particularly impressed with the pub. Our plan to decide the ...

... Aztec death masks. We saw the relics of the Philistines, Grecian vases and columns and Assyrian friezes. We saw cuneiform texts and Celtic armour. It's incredible. But there was far too much stuff, even for a full day. Towards the end of the afternoon, ...

... more powerful than the queen and prime minister combined) and the House of Lords former County Hall Building - once a stonghold of London liberals, now a hotel and tourist complex London Eye - on the "South Bank" of the Thames, standing 443 feet tall, ...

... a museum, through the mummies and funerary boxes, through Roman golden jewellery and the Hellenic amphorae, and the Nordic ironwork and Celtic wooden crosses.  We needed an entire day to go through the entire museum, and even then it might still be ...

... pm and got gallery tickets for the 7:30 concert. No view of the performers, but the sound was beautiful. We heard the London Chorale and a local orchestra play Handel's “Zadoc the Priest”, Mozart's “Requiem” and some Vivaldi. ...

... , bony almost but wiry, taut arms strong from playing guitar, pouring drinks and lifting keg after keg. A tattoo on her forearm of a celtic symbol, another on the back of her knuckle--of which when asked about she makes reference to a juvenile bet with a ...

... great, its really been hot here, in the high 20's. But I have been told not to get to used to it. So the Celtic Manor is the 3rd biggest resort hotel in the UK, 400 rooms, 4 restaurants, over 40 functions rooms, 2 health clubs, a spa, and 3 golf courses. ...

It was a 13 hrs long flight, starting 9am from Singapore to transit in London Heathrow Airport. Feeling restless, I took out my Casio Exlim to capture some ariel shots while plane was descending to Heathrow, the lense JAM!! Just my (bad) luck! It was ...