Blogs from Earls Court, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 4

It's Saturday and it is the end of a very long week. A very hard, demanding and study-packed week. I enrolled a CELTA course in Earl's Court which is an intensive Mon-Fri 9.30am - 5pm course designed mainly to train English native speakers who wish to enhance their job prospects as EFL teachers abroad. CELTA stands for 'Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults' and the trainees get a Pass/Fail mark, according to their overall performance. The course is very hands-on which means we basically go through the theory by doing loads of activities and putting ourselves in the students' shoes. The name of the school is LANGUAGE LINK and I decided to sign up for the course running here after doing some research on the Internet and reading some reviews on... read more

We have spent an amazing 2 days in Paris! A cruise of the river seine and a double-decker bus tour of the city. The people were lovely and most spoke some English. Our hotel was cozy and actually quite quaint in true Parisian style. We saw all the sites. Eiffel tower was a true highlight! Stunning! We are currently at the airport in Paris, waiting to check in for our flight to Ljubljana. Parisians have been most hospitable and girls (mia and sienna) even told how beautiful they are! Alex and I typed for about an hour and a half a couple of days ago and for the life of me I can't seem to publish it! If I work it out, you will enjoy alex's account of our london stay, otherwise I will park myself ... read more

hello again, as you can tell by the dates I have been catching up on our blogs today and not quite so newsy after a couple of days as it could've been... must be the brandies tonight - OMG he makes them strong.... Today was a very long day - first of all the sun is up at 4am and doesn't go back down again until about 9.30pm - anyway was awake from around 3am onwards... but moving on we were at the tube bright and early and then to Victoria to find the bus we had to catch to take us to Windsor Castle, Bath and Stonehenge... what fun it was finding the right bus out of so many tourist buses - were nicely seated in one bus - after a few hassles and wrong ... read more

We finally arrived safely in London. Gee we really do live a long way away! Kids travelled brilliantly! We were so proud of them. They slept, ate, watched movies, played video games, coloured in and chatted! We are all exhausted though and looking toward to sleeping in beds and not in uncomfortable seats! We spent the evening, Thursday, with Marie (dame's sister) and a special bbq dinner together! Kids were so excited to see their auntie they nearly bowled her over in the foyer of our hotel! It really is fab to see her! We are staying at a hotel, just 10 mins from her house so we can see her after work when she goes back next week! Tomorrow we set out to see the sites of London! Marie and her partner hamish have taken ... read more

Wednesday 30 June Yesterday morning we awoke to the first rain of our trip thus far. However it didn’t last for too long and by the time Stacey and Rhys arrived at Earl’s Court to meet us, the skies were almost clear and our plans for a visit to the Adventure Playground at Holland Park were not disrupted. After the hugs and kisses and introductions to and amongst the boys, we walked up Earl’s Court Road to the park. We worked out that we had last seen Stacey ten years ago when she was in Australia for the year she spent studying in Melbourne. That was in 2000, the year we arrived in Sydney and Greg was born, so no wonder my recollections of seeing Stacey that year are a bit vague. As we walked we ... read more