Blogs from Wimbledon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 7

Hello and welcome to Steve and Linda's travel weblog, or travelblog as the cognoscenti would have it. We will be travelling around India, Thailand and Cambodia during December 2005 and January 2006, and recording our experiences here. If you're very lucky, there may even be photos. Unlike many of our co-bloggers, we are not searching for spiritual fulfilment. A nice cup of tea and a biscuit will probably do us. Please feel free to add your comments to any of our journals. If you subscribe, you will automatically be sent a notification email when we make updates.... read more

harry was supposed to leave on tuesday the 4th but i convinced him to stay until the following tuesday. we were able to go to london to see his family who lives there. we stayed with his aunt cathy in her house in london. it was nice to see his cousins they are really neat kids and it was nice to stay in an actual house not a creepy apartment or hotel for once. we saw everythign there was to see in london plus some. we arrived on thursday and went out for fish and chips at a pub, that was a really neat experience. on friday i do not think i even remember everywhere we went! we started at the tower of london which was so fun because the beefeaters give these tours and the ... read more

One thing that can be said about the English is that they are polite and orderly ... and they love a good queue. So we should not have been shocked when we arrived at Wimbledon Park at 6.30am on a Saturday morning in June and were given a card containing our number in the queue and a substantial booklet entitled "A guide to queuing at the Wimbledon Championships". I suspect this same scene in Australia would have been more than a little chaotic, with people trying to save spots for their mates and a bit of jostling for position going on. But not in England! We had arrived early to join the hordes lining up to secure general admission tickets to see the tennis at Wimbledon. The more enthusiastic punters had camped out overnight in the ... read more

Preparations The traumas that ensued after we started to pack up our lives and take a major detour via 14 countries included the following: *Reading travel guides and wanting to go everywhere and then trying to choose the places we want to go to most. Why is it that the place you want to go most is always the last place you read about? *Learning to Kayak in the wonderful British weather. Carl being told he needs to spend more time upright. *Getting hold of some neoprene socks. The full story will be published in a three-volumn epic once we find a publisher. *Getting a very nice camera. No blaming the equipment here. *Budgeting nightmares. How much? YOU DONT WANT TO KNOW!!! *Booking a Round the World Ticket. 2 Months of struggle, the rules of an ... read more