Blogs from Notting Hill, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

We’ve been in London for about 4 days now and have almost another 2 days left. We aren’t going to get to do everything that we had hoped we’d do despite the fact that we’ve been busy tourists the whole time that we’ve been here. We arrived in London late on Friday afternoon after driving to Gatwick from our accommodation in the New Forest. We had a couple of hours to fill in if we didn’t want to sit in a park in London, before arriving at our London apartment, so we decided to doing some sight-seeing on the way. We purchased a National Trust membership early in our travels and so we visited one of the Gardens-Historic Homes that they own. The property that we chose was called Hinton-Ampner. This was a historic house that ... read more

SORRY THIS INCLUDES 20 UNINTENDED PICTURES...ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM, DUMB DUMB, THE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS AND MORE! Learning to make coffee in an Italian press machine…not fun and not very good. Being in the market with fresh fruit and vegetables not 20 steps away is a wonderful treat. Amazingly the only thing less expensive in London than the US is the market - fruit and veggies and oh my are they good. I hope we can find the same in Galway. Kids have been great together despite the additional closeness and unending bonding time. Relatively little bickering and fighting as I would have anticipated at this point in our travels. A bit of a love hate relationship with the city. While I love the excitement and diversity, (London is an amazing melting pot of cultures and ... read more

I hope this video works! For the celebration of London Fest and the Queens Jubilee, pianos were placed throughout the city. Just walk up and play. We ran into this one along the river... shy boys in this video are now on the hunt for more pianos!... read more

I began my third euro trip with both hope and trepidation. Hope because my last trip to Europe left me suivh a great goal. When I came over, I was in a slightly bad place. Professionally, I had been declined a job at turner south which is where I thought my dream job must be. Personally, I had a lot of stuff going on as well, and living in Germany was a welcome respite from that. While in germany, I had the chance to work with a young girl that needed help with her English hw. I would say she was the catalyst that lead to my current career. I hadn't really thought about teaching until I worked wi her, saw her lightbulb moments, and her thirst for knowledge. She even helped me with my german! ... read more

Ok, so last weekend I was at Ang's going away party because she was heading off for a four month trip around Europe, I had a few drinks and I met this English guy named Edward. You know what it's like, one thing lead to another we exchanged numbers, which brings us up to date with today. Tonight was our first date. I meet him on the platform of my train station and headed towards Notting Hill. We were going out to dinner first before then heading to his friend's going away party. I wasn't really keen on the going away party but I thought, whatever maybe I'll get a chance to make so new friends. We were having dinner and things were going ok, conversation was following, we were drinking and laughing and having a ... read more