Blogs from Piccadilly, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

My last day in London. I have to thank my wonderful running shoes for taking me on a glorious jog along the Thames River. I have included some pictures of my glorious Hostel. Super Fancy. I wondered through Borough Market. I have to say the highlight was the CHEESE STORE. Wheels of cheese were stacked to the ceiling, it was AMAZING, and the smell was…well you could tell it was a cheese market. I went to the Tate Modern Museum to check out some different artwork. I didn’t know I would find works by Monet, Dali, and Picasso. One of the most interesting pieces was a pile of sunflower husks. It was done by Ai Weiwei….it turns out every single husk is actually handmade out of porcelain. The artist was arrested in China for his liberal ... read more

Finally arrived here in england. im not sure what i was expecting but it wasnt this! this city is fucking massive!!! poeple everywhere! i was walking about yesterday as i got of the tube from heathrow and was bombarded with poeple trampling over everthing like cattle! quite a site to see. we are staying in a backpackers hostel in picadilly, its right in the heart of london. yesterday we went for a bit of a walk and ended up in trafalgar sqaure. had a real tasty pizza and a beer. I like it here i asked for a glass of beer and they bring out tall boys of peroni. we had a drink at some random pub as well everyone seems super friendly and we started drinking with some austrians. couldnt understand a word they said ... read more

Det er langt fra første gang, jeg blogger om kaffekæden. Nu gør jeg det igen. Jeg er tilbage i London, og det var her det startede. Ikke for Starbucks, men for mig. Det var her, jeg for syv år siden og atten (!) år gammel drak min første kop af denne mørkebrune, runde drik. Min far mente, at hvis jeg skulle starte med kaffe et sted, så måtte det være her. Og det virkede. Obviously. I næste måned fylder den Seattle-baserede kaffekæde fyrre år. De sidste syv år har jeg fået hældt min andel kaffe i mig (jeg har aldrig prøvet deres te), og i dag skulle så blive dagen, hvor jeg blev den lykkelige ejer af et Starbucks-kundekort. Now I have to come back. Det er skønt at være tilbage i London. Besynderligt nok er ... read more

Piccadilly Circus was our destination today. Again we played the tourists and caught the big, red, double deck bus into town. We sat in, what I like to call, the tourist seats....the top, front, left-hand side seat has the best view and it is my favourite. I used to sit in this seat every day when I was travelling to work. It reminded me that even though I was on my way to work, I should still appreciate where I was, in arguably the most famous city in the world. After taking some happy snaps in the centre of the circus, we snuck in some shopping at Lilliwhites. Lilliwhites is a massive sports department store over 6 levels! We couldn’t help ourselves and spent quite some time in here. So much time, in fact Mykenzie had ... read more

Had a late dinner with Bob and Rich last night at a restaurant just down the street from our hotel called The Warwick. Originally we were suppose to eat at a restaurant called Polpo’s (Alpo Dog Food as Bob would call it lol), an Italian restaurant our concierge recommended (he is from Italy and said it was his favorite in the city). The place was packed and the waiter kept telling us “just waiting for a table to clear”, which seemed like forever. We ended up leaving heading over to the Warwick instead (knuckles, Bob  - we really didn’t want to eat there anyways lol). It rained pretty good that night. When we got back to the hotel Chris took ½ an ambien and I took a whole one, he was woozy within 10 minutes, ... read more

The Beginning of London The flight from Montreal to Brussels was a little under 7 hours long. Our plane from Montreal was delayed not quite an hour, but the layover in Brussels was only an hour and a bit long. This meant that we barely made the plane to London and our baggage did not come with us. So we were without luggage for the first two days until we finally went to the airport to get it once it came to London. The hostel we are staying at is called The Generator. The other day we went down to Hyde park and Parliament Square. Here we saw Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben (Not as big as you would think but really nice.) These were only self-guided tours just to get a feel for ... read more