Spa London

Die Zeit in England ist vorbei, ich bin wieder in Berlin und ist aktive Blogzeit ist damit für's erste beendet. Aber natürlich können die alten Einträge weiterhin noch gelesen werden. Viel Spaß dabei! Heiko

... . This 11-day tour of central England will feature - Medieval Warwickshire Castle, Waddesdon Manor and gardens, Blenheim Palace, a tour of London, a visit to Christ Church at Oxford, and the Cotswold villages. Our group will also be treated to an ...

... tinkle of a small child's toy piano. As we came closer to the area of the "music" we saw an English women in a traditional London Fog raincoat leaping lightly up and down on small metal squares about 9 inches by 9 inches inside a large metal frame on the ...

... , so I ran to the gift shop and bought the only sweatshirt they had. So now I am a proud owner of a tower of London sweatshirt. Such a wise decision because the rain started shortly thereafter. We walked to the pier, as the tower is right on the Thames. ...

... morning onboard. Disembarkation was quick and after a short wait on the bus we were whisked through the countryside back to London. We enjoyed a riveting conversation with a travel journalist from The Sunday Times in New York and the time just flew by. ...

... weekend at a very posh old hotel, I didn't take long to think about it! Jason was doing some business at the langham, London's oldest five star hotel, located just off Oxford Circus, and planned to stay the weekend for alittle R&R, which is always ...

... are popular among the ladies. I guess in this climate I would wear them year round as well. I have given up on my own fashion in London, and opted for comfort for most of my stay. A big part of that had to do with not being able to tame my hair with my ...

... and the one we needed was indeed on the other side of the airport. Now she was stressing about missing her flight to London, but a crisis was just what I needed to put the traffic situation into perspective. Off we set and with the navigation skills we ...

... forget. I'm running on fumes at this point and just wasting some time til I can get in my room and rest a bit. Then I'm off to see We Will Rock You. I hope it is great. And if you don't know where "London Baby" is quoted from, you are not my ...

... unable to find our transfers, so grabbed a taxi and paid fifty pounds to get to our hotel. This was not a good start to our London odyssey, and things just went downhill from there. Just as the taxi pulled up to the hotel my nose started bleeding, so I ...

July 9 – Day 10 – London: "How Not to See Stonehenge, Salisbury and Bath in One Day" In terms of sheer volume of activity, this day on the itinerary takes top honors. It takes the blue ribbon in several other categories as well, including ...

Well, today was our last day in London. We made good use of it shopping, though! We started off the morning getting a little bit more sleep. We made a stop at our favorite cafe, and headed off to the tube to go shopping! First we made our way to an ...

... lovely treat of traditional English breakfast which is : Toast, sausage, mushroom, and tea. Mom and I snuck downstairs and had amazing spa treatments. I didnt know the Mandarin Oriental was known worldwide for its spa but I now know why. Spent the day in ...

... sandwiches, pasta, curry and salad.  After lunch had a relax, and watched some of Federer's game against Haas. Relaxing spa treatments - Gwen: facial; Ant: Massage.  Then walked around shops before heading down to the train across to T5B.  ...

... beauty instead of listening to the hustle and bustle of airports, trains, and city streets. It was a little chilly and drizzly (typical London weather), but as long as I kept walking and kept my umbrella from flipping inside out I was just fine. I got to ...

Lady Eloise and I have spent the last week in Leamington Spa, about an hour and a half out of London. A small, suburban type of place, with requisite, and admittedly quite beautiful church,  tehn not much else. A place which, although it has it's ...

... made a poem of. it has been challenging but i am likely it alot. So in between working and working I have been exploring London and finding more little treasures as I go along.... Changing of the guards (front of Buckingham Palace) on a bright ...

... We came across 'The Monument’ in Monument Street.  It was built between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the Great Fire of London and celebrate the rebuilding of the city.  The Great Fire was in 1666 and burned for 3 days – 13,000 ...

... met Ben while she was studying abroad at St. Andrews in Scotland-- he lives in Kent, which is about 40 minutes outside of London by train.  The four of us wandered around Harrods for a long time. Harrods is totally amazing!! We started in the ...