Blogs from London City, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 11

Tower of London, Boutique souvenirs des joyaux de la couronne : Gen, vois un jeu de societe... vous savez qu'elle aime bien les jeux de societe... Le jeu s'appelle : Who stole the crown...? Gen : How much for the board game ? Vendeuse : It's 15 000£. Gen : Oh... I will think about it... Ahahaha ! Je vais y penser... suis je prete a depenser autant d'argent pour un jeu de societe auquel je vais etre la seule a vouloir jouer rendu a la maison... ? euh... I will think about it... you bet ! ;-) Finalement pour me rendre compte que le jeu est fait avec de vrai pierres precieuses !! :-o London Done ... et j'ai bien mal aux pieds ! Ca tombe bien en fait j'etais du pour changer de decor ... read more

Hi guys...! Only one day left in the city... Le clavier vas vraiment malalors excusez mes espaces inexistants... Wish i could download pictures... l'ordi est blinder jai pas acces a uneprise usb...! Une image vaut milles mots et 323images en 4 jours envalent beaucoup des mots...! Jadore London city...les londonniens en general sont pastresbeaux pas contre...sauf lebarman de lhotel!! hihihi ! Labiere levin et la bouffe sont bons.. lhotel qui se devait un 3* en est finalement un 2*..!mais cesttres correct.. Jai vu tellement de choses... appris tellement sur moi...la therapie du bonheur suit son train et le chemin n'est que plus logique... Jecris beaucoup... beaucoup decris queje ne vous partagepas..mais ils sont la... Je mennuie de vous,mais pas trop encore.. jaifait seulement 4jours voyons!! Mercipour lasuggestion de lecture a Isa et Martine...Le chard... read more

Scott and I spent a very plesant Sunday morning strolling around London City on a walking tour called 2000 years of history in London's Square Mile. It was extremely interesting to learn what history is moments from your door just across the river. We started out at the Mounument, and learnt how there really wasn't a lot of fire fighting going on during the Great Fire. The next interesting point was a beautiful garden in a church ruin up from the old Billingsgate Fish Market, it almost felt tropical. Onwards we walked closer to what is now the city area with the Gerkin and other iconic buildings; like the inside out building and the Leadenhall Markets. One amusing story was about how they use to make little shoes for the geese so they could walk to ... read more

For some reason I found the prospect of being in London by myself for two days to be pretty intimidating, even though I had already done it before my trip. So yesterday i decided to go back to Oxford. I just wasn't ready to leave. I visited all my favorite locations and also took a long walk north of town to visit Wolvercote Cemetery, where J.R.R. Tolkien is buried. That took the better part of the day. I caught a bus back to London and pretty much crashed when I got to my hostel. Today I decided to brave London. I walked a lot because I didn't want to pay to use the Underground. Anyway, I spent the entire day looking at the Imperial War Museum, which covered the UK's involvement in wars since 1914 (the ... read more

today i had a pretty uneventful morning, i chilled out in a cafe for the morning as i was catching the eurostar to london in the afternoon. nothing too exciting happened althouh it was pretty cool being on a train that goes under sea and get served a yummy meal with a glass of red wine, living the high life :-). i stayed at the Clink hostel which was alot nicer than i expected. i had an early night as has to be up at 6am to meet the tour leader in the morning.... read more

I work for a company in London but I am based in the North east. I had never met anyone from the company that I work for as it is Internet based, so because I like to get out and about, I decided to take a few days off work to go and visit them. My day started at 6.30 in the morning. I had to catch a bus to the train station which is in Newcastle, no problem with this part of the journey. Getting on the right train for London was a different story however. I spent twenty minutes looking at the train times and found out which platform the train was due to leave from. That was my first mistake, I got on the wrong train and soon realized that I was ... read more

I swear I’m going to throw one of the suitcases overboard. If it weren’t for the help of strangers I would still be at the Tilbury Railway Station. Enjoyed a smoked salmon and scrambled egg breakfast, checked out and had a delightful cab ride (in a metered cab) to Fenchurch Street Station. The driver was chatty, interesting and because of the construction I got to see different London sites, elegant Mayfair and the British Museum to name a couple. There were many cruisers on the Tilbury train and I sat with two women, Carol and her daughter Angela, from Sydney, who are traveling together while their husbands are at home taking care of things. We compared travel adventures and plans for future trips. Angela was particularly helpful with the luggage. I would probably still be on ... read more

Having spent the summer that I lived here traipsing around the continent, putting on as much weight as I could humanly manage whilst on a gastronomical tour of Italy, France, Slovenia and Croatia, this time around I settled upon spending a few weeks of the summer in London. One night I was walking to a pub in Notting Hill to see a friend from my teenage years spent in Ballarat and, lo and behold, who should be walking towards me but none other than Jimmy Page! I did an about-face as he entered a restaurant to my right, felt giddy and realised that I was wearing the grin of an inbred half-wit who just experienced for the first time the rush gained from drinking his uncle-daddy's moonshine. With the classic Led Zeppelin riff from Kashmir flooding ... read more