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By Dewz
October 20th 2008

First Week in London!

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London Bridge!!

Well we made it to London! It's crazy to think that our trip is half way over! But we still have a couple weeks left! Our flats are huge! Especially compared to the extremely small hostel we had 4 people scrunched into. I'm living with Katie Sloan, 2 girls from my sorority - Vanessa Hart and Britt Zwolfer, and Sarah Miers. We have our own kitchen, 2 bed rooms, and 2 bathrooms. We are living in Kensington. This area is the 3rd wealthiest in London, and the 5th in the world. So I better start looking for a husband ;) - [View Full Entry]

By Fuller Family
September 25th 2008

Seeing more sights of London!!

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Horse Guards Parade
Held daily about 11am - the Queen's Life Guard leaves Hyde Park Barracks and rides to Horse Guards Parade

I know you are all probably thinking only of the upcoming Grand Final on Saturday, but hopefully you all have some time to think of the Griswold family over here on their continuing European Vacation! I'm writing this at about 8.30am on Thursday morning while chatting with the kids. Dean is having a little lie in as he and Lochie didn't get home until midnight last night - they spent the afternoon and evening down at Portsmouth (I'll let him tell you all about that later!) while Ains and I had a 'girls afternoon' wandering around Harrods and shopping in Kensington [View Full Entry]

By Purpose Driven
September 14th 2008

London

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London homes from Hotel Room

Arrival in London I will add info later about this trip. [View Full Entry]

By MoLynn
September 2nd 2008

First Week in London

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Somewhere close to Kensington Gardens... Well, I've been simply awful about keeping up with my online journal entry so this is my attempt to catch up before I get home! My time in London was awesome. I lived in the neighborhood of Kensington which is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in England. That means our area was safe but a bit pricey. We managed thanks to a grocery store called Sainsburys and Sandwich World where you could get a sandwich for only 2 GBPs. Not a bad deal! Our flats were located just 10 minutes from Kensington Gardens next to Kensington [View Full Entry]

By Gordon Stags
August 25th 2008

London, here we are

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Stags on Tour

Day 1 - Monday 25th August We arrived at 6:35am London time after a bum numbing flight from Bangkok (there’s got to be serious money in making aeroplane seats comfortable) Anyway, with minimal sleep and much excitement we arrived to be met by our tour leader Buddy and be whisked away on a morning tour of London. Well that was the plan, unfortunately Buddy slept in throwing everything into disarray. Luckily for us our tour guide, Warren, was on the job and loaded us onto the coach and got us ready to go. Just as we were about to leave we [View Full Entry]

By smkwan
August 5th 2008

Mad rush in London

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Events Capital
Tonnes of musicals and performances to choose from

Everyday was long and tiring in London. Thu >> Arrived at 6am. Too early for check-in but hotel managed to provide a day room for us to wash up. Took a quick nap before heading out for a quick breakfast and meeting at London STB office. Nice cosy office. Did a quick site recce before proceding to buy tickets for our musical for this evening and also collect pre-ordered tickets for my bosses. Lotsa walking in the heels and heavy lappy. Dashed back to hotel to check-in and out again to rush for our Dirty Dancing musical. Love the dancing and [View Full Entry]

By Korean Homestay
July 24th 2008

Korean Homestay - Day 3 and 4

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Group photo at the Natural History Museum

NAME: Jina 7/23 I get up at 8:15. We have lunch noodles and dinner chicken with rice. We study English. After that we go to Greenwich park. I feel great. 7/24 Today we went by train and under ground. We have lunch sandwich. After that we go to the Natural History museum. We saw the dinosaurs and animals. We went to the science museum. We saw the space man, cars and airplanes. We play games. We have English lessen. We study countries and Nationalities. NAME: park sang huck 2008, 7, 23, Wednesday I studied English lesson. I studied English alphabet, months, [View Full Entry]

Young Gun and Sank Huk laughing in the park

By Mals
June 19th 2008

Jack the Ripper, Ice Bar, Roller Disco and Silent Disco?

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Ice Bar

Uh, oh. I have ANOTHER entry. haha. I wanted to tell ya'll about some stuff that I have done here in London lately. At the beginning of every session, our program offers a bunch of different activities that you can participate in. Of course we have to pay for them but they get us discounted tickets for everything. For this session I signed up for the Jack the Ripper walk, Billy Elliot, Wicked (which is like the Wizard of Oz), and a boat party on the second to last day of our time here. I just recently went to Jack the [View Full Entry]

By Mals
June 9th 2008

"Always look on the bright side of life..."

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sun bathing
we went out and hung out in the park one day when it was hot and sunny...this is one of the chairs you can pay 2 pounds for to sit in

Well. I have not had a blog in a little while. I believe the last thing I talked about was the pub crawl I did for one of the RA's birthday's. So, the question is...what have I done since then. Well, it was my roommates 21st birthday in London, went to a play called SPAMALOT (based on the Monty Python and the Holy Grail), ate some Indian food, and went to Ireland. As many of you may know, 21 is a special year for the people in America. I dont think I need to go into detail about any birthday celebration [View Full Entry]

By SusieQ3443
June 7th 2008

A Short Day in London

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The London Eye
What a marvelous invention for tourists to a city. A real birdseye view.

Disembarking the ship is quite a science for the Princess crew. If you follow their instructions, it is quite painless. People are going in several different directions when they arrive in Southampton and Princess is very good about getting you where you want to go. Luggage is all packed the night before and set outside the stateroom door for pick up. A tag on it identifies what your plans are when you exit the ship. Those of us going to London on private transportation had a gold tag. Jerry & Kathy, Bob & Deanie and I had booked transportation with West [View Full Entry]

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