Blogs from Camden Town, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

In London you can visit plenty of things whithout having to spend any pounds. Most of the museums and art galleries are free. You can see the gards in front of Buckinghame Palace with their traditional red coat and their bear skins hat. The ceremony of the changing of the gards is very impressive. To see that ceremony you have to be at Buckingham Palace for 11tho’clock but be careful the ceremony don’t takes place every day ! You also have many popular districts like Camden town with the famous Camden Lock Market, an enormous market where you can found everything ! It looks like an amusement park, the shops are so funny and there are there are extravert people ... read more

Helllooooooo everyone (who is actually reading this) HA since last post have been living the good life ( havent worked for 2 weeks) fantastic! So have been runnig around london having a ball!! been to the gym ( twice...) haha been to the pub (ten times...). house mates are all fantastic, one in particular as (sorry dad) he is now my boyfriend. Hector, amazing fantastic and makes me SO happy. ( mushy shit over) Soooooo in less than 7 days off to Ireland with a few girls from back home ( Jess Sinnot, Emma Davis). Meeting up with a few Irish friends from my south east asia travels who i havent seen for a year so i cannot wait!! Celebrating Paddys day in Dublin and then off to Galway to see the friends! i come back ... read more

This past weekend I visited my best friend Kiran in London! It's remarkable to see a good friend in a foreign place -- the first hug made me feel home :) And her suitmate Masha let me have some of her dinner just because I was eying it hungrily. What a sweetheart! The first night I had to sneak into Kiran's room because she, being Kiran, did not turn in the guest request form. All of her new friends helped me creep past the security guard by locating themselves strategically and distracting him! Unfortunately, at the moment of truth, as I sprinted through the treacherous hallway toward the dorm room of salvation, I tripped and fell over and dropped my suitcase. Perhaps even more embarrassingly, I abandoned it and left it for her friend Jill to ... read more

So now we're settling down into life in London, and Mike has survived his first week back at school. It reminds us that we're not really on vacation, and that there is a real purpose as to why we're here.... but we still have the weekends to travel. Mike usually has Fridays and Monday mornings, so we'll have more time to travel, but this weekend he had to go to class on Friday so we stayed local for the weekend. This is fine because there's just so much to see here, that there's never a dull moment! On Saturday we stuck around London, and spent much of the day in Hyde Park. Because we are missing the accessibility of our beloved Bixi bikes (for those who don't know, they're the bike share program that recently started ... read more

Need to keep this updated more! So many things have happened since this last Tuesday... Wednesday was my first full day of classes and they are interesting to say the least. My anthropology class is all about music and how it's changed over time in London from jazz to punk to popular music and all that falls in between so perfect class for me. Thanks goodness though he gave us tons of venues to go to that are cheap to just sit and listen to music. Jazz is at the root of a lot of music around here so there are plenty of jazz clubs to go to and listen to music. Which will definitely be on my list of things to do. Then my history class on the other hand is a bit tedious it ... read more

Turns out Jet Lag is some serious stuff. Jumping from Hawaii to London really confuses the body. Miles and I woke up ready for life this morning at 5:30 am. You would think that maybe something would be available to do but here people start everything a little bit later. We ended up taking the tube to Camden Town. A few things that we noticed… 1. If it is before 9 am, bring a paper to read on the Tube, everybody is doing it. 2. Mixed Drinks come in the can, yes Dad you’re favorite Gin and Tonic is a close as a can open away. 3. Nothing really opens and starts jumping till like 1030/11 4. Entertainment can be found by walking through the super market Brits can say just about anything and it can ... read more

So we showed up in London and Paul remembered that he has a cousin that lives here. He sent him a message just after we got into the city, and by noon we had plans to go over to his flat for dinner. We wandered around during the day on Sunday, checked out Camden Market which is just up the street from our hostel... a pretty interesting place. While we were at it, we found a shop called Cyberdog... the decor in the store was quite elaborate. Unfortunately they didn't allow photos. Maybe I can find some on teh internets. As we were walking past some stalls, Paul also recognized some artwork that one of the artists at his office had sent out as something interesting to look at that he'd found on the internet earlier ... read more

I'm quite rubbish at updating my blogs regularly as I'm sure you've worked out and have just had the shocking revelation that I have been neglecting London itself. Here I am living in this fantastic city and yet my focus is only on the trips out of it!. London has so much to offer and as I explore more of it I'll hopefully be able to provide some insights into great things to do which don't involve flashing lots of cash, but will require a physical commitment. My friend Blue and I have made a pact to explore more of London on a regular basis and I thought I should share our first jaunt of 2011 which was a wander along the Regent Canal from Little Venice to Camden Markets. We were joined by my other ... read more