Blogs from London City, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

The tourist trail has prevailed during our London days. The London Eye was't here when I lived here, so that was our first port of call, quite a spectacukar engineering feat, the views were splendid and we came pretty close to planes turning finals for Heathrow!! the next few hours were spent in the London traffic on the open top tour bus with a recorded commentary!! The traffic was like Auckland, but we took in the sights Eastwards and by the time we got to Tower Bridge we were over inching along on our double decker bus and returned to the Embankment via a river cruise, which took in all the bridges crossing the Thames. The second part of our open top tour was more interesting as we headed West this time as we had a ... read more

Photos of The Jubilee Greenwalk from Camden Lock to Victoria Park...... read more

We arrived in London's Heathrow around 7.30am, Thursday 13 July. Hundred of other travellers also arrived around the same time which meant it took ages to get through customs. Leaving Sydney wasn't without its problems either as we sat in the plane for over one and a half hours after our scheduled take off time. Due to Sydney's strong winds only one runway was operational for both take off and landing although once in the air it wasn't as bumpy as we'd been led to believe it would be...thankfully! Amongst the movies I watched on the plane was The Graduate starring a very young Dustin Hoffman and Ann Bancroft. It's years since I saw it originally but it was certainly well worth a re-run. Catherine and David Barker - a couple of other Dickensians ... read more

June 2016 and again Feb 2017 were two visits to the United Kingdom. It was a long flying time of around 11 hours. First time we had taken such a long journey and getting tired of sitting ! Though we were watching movies, snacking in between the boredom of long journey does irritate at times.We landed at the Heathrow airport in the afternoon of 20 th June. It was indeed quite pleasant and cold. For us from India with a temperature of 37 Deg it was pretty cold at 16 deg. We checked into the YMCA hostel at Fitzroy square. A decent place in the central area close to Warren road tube station, supermarkets and other facilities. The first day was just spent in the room and a evening walk around the area. The next day ... read more

On paper, London is the who's who of global cities. It's the world's most visited destination and has the busiest airport on Earth (Heathrow), making JFK look as empty as a Jags game. It has the most billionaires in the world (72), so plentiful that Sir Richard Branson is just another number. It's considered the world's leading financial center and top investment spot, even Forbes Magazine brushed aside New York City and Wall Street to call London the most influential city on the planet. The town's conglomerate of 43 universities was ranked #1 internationally for higher education, making Cambridge, Massachusetts feel like junior high. And if that weren't enough, it's the only city to host the Olympics 3 times, an ode to its incredible infrastructure that comprises of top-class museums, a theater scene second only to ... read more