Blogs from Camden Town, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

Anne writing Tuesday 19 May and we decided to be very brave and tackle the underground alone, this included a change at Embankment so we could get to the Science Museum. To me it seemed more like a transport museum although we did participate in the online GM debate and James designed small blue tomatoes with lots of flavour, and ones the size of pumpkins that were tasteless. The Natural History Museum was calling out to us so back we went and "did" the red zone earthquakes and volcanoes. After a very expensive and uninspiring lunch ( my resolve to save money by packing lunches seems to have been lost) I persuaded James that the British Museum was worth a look and on the way home. We got off at Tottenham Court, we do love all ... read more

James writing Today I went to the Camden markets and we had lunch near the canal, I got a brazilian burger it was huge. Then we noticed a long house boat and it was a very beautiful and clean boat with nice people that own the boat. We had a chat to him about his boat and stuff then he had to get the boat through the lock and he offerd me to help him. So I pushed the lock thinking it wouldn't be so tough but I gave it a push and boy it was so so heavy. The man that owned the boat could push the boat easily but I struggled a bit but the more I progressed it got easyer. The man thought I was strong so I gave it a big heave ... read more

We both had a full nights sleep and a lazy start to the day. Decided to walk the 20 minutes from where we are staying to the London Zoo. James has never seen a gorilla before so we were thrilled to see them up nice and close. The zoo seems to be very animal friendly. Disappointingly we had heard about an enormous elephant park, but it is not at the London zoo you have to travel quite some distance and I don't think we will be able to go. We were pleased we didn't pay to go the butterfly house at the Natural History Museum because there is a lovely one at the zoo for no extra cost. Other highlights were a great aquarium, and lots of accesible enclosures where you walk amongst the animals with ... read more

NB: We forgot the stupid camera when we were going to Camden so we dont really have any photo's to prove the following comments - Smic Bee Sup sup, guess who? Everyone I spoke to who has been overseas told me that my life will change forever and that I will look at everything in a different way. I was told this was the perfect opportunity to put myself to the ultimate test in many different situations. I was so excited about this I decided to set a couple of goals for myself. 1: Stress less 2: Grow up 3: Self control I suck at self control as was proved today at Camden Markets. Although, I'll quickly mention we did go to the pub last night with some Aussies and South Africans from the hostel. We ... read more

The English adults do not celebrate Halloween. Only the kids dress up, usually for school or trick-or-treating. That's it. For one night, us American's caused a ruckus and celebrated halloween. The BUNAC program rented a club and threw us Americans a halloween party. The people I work with were very interested in the fact that I was going to go out and find my halloween costume, not just rent one. Getting dressed up and getting ready with the girls in the hostel was a lot of fun. Alyse and I dressed up as "Risky Business" or Tom Cruise from Risky Business. The costume consisted of a man's dress shirt, boxers, socks, and sunglasses. It was prettty chilly outside but the costume worked well in the hot club. I loved the sunglasses as well. The Sunday after ... read more