Millennium Gloucester

... luggage down to the Tube. This was good advice, and so we enjoyed a cab ride through the centre of London to the Millennium Gloucester, a very nice hotel with spacious rooms and a Club Lounge for guests (like us) who had opted for an accommodation ...

... to try to come in from Billericay each day.  It just wasn't practical to commute like that.  The hotel we found (Millennium Gloucester) was no more expensive than the hotels here in Grand Rapids--and it's in LONDON!  It looks really nice, ...

After a leisurely breakfast on our last morning in London, we took advantage of a midday check out from the Millennium Gloucester Hotel to pack our bags and get sorted for our short flight from Gatwick airport to Amsterdam. We caught a taxi to Victoria ...

... If it’s busy in the streets now, I can’t imagine during the Olympics. We were pleasantly surprised to exit the Gloucester tube station after 'minding the gap' and to see our hotel directly across the street so that the 16+ kilo backpacks plus ...

... .  The large millennium stadium with its tubular steel spider like frame is the home of Welsh rugby and there is a Millennium building, with a coppery-gold colour exterior that houses a number of theatres and cinemas and has the largest box office in ...

... . Completing the ring of eighteen bells, a sixth new bell was commissioned by the Western Australian Government to mark the second millennium. The above bit of background came from the bells' home page, which I didn't read until after we returned home, ...

... , separated by a huge stone wall. The first keep on the motte was erected by Robert Fitzhamon, the Norman Lord of Gloucester, and along with many of these early defences was probably built of wood. More medieval fortifications and dwellings followed. The ...

Just arrived in the UK. Big couple of weeks ahead now, feels like Im on the home straight. As much as Im enjoying this holiday Im really missing my own bed, looking forward to getting home. As for the UK, its nice to be back in the English speaking world ...