Blogs from Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 9

Introduction - Experience one of our best European tours! See the highlights of western, central and eastern Europe over 22 incredible days. This European trip itinerary is packed with incredible destinations, sights and activities. You’ll experience good times and great classic cities. See Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin and Luxembourg. Travel east to Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Zagreb. Round off your trip with time in Belgium. Explore at your own pace with free days in Paris, Lucerne, Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam. One of our best European vacations awaits! SAT, 13 AUG 2022 – Day 1: Welcome to London! Meet your tour leader this morning and head out to explore the Royal Borough of Greenwich. As part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, it’s a must-see with many historical buildings and gardens. Wander through the historic ... read more

Today was a travel day in the truest since of the word. We had a great breakfast at our guesthouse and said our goodbyes. We loaded our luggage to the street and sat in the garden to wait for our taxi. Because of the train strikes in the UK we had to make alternate arrangements to get to the main train line at Oxenholme. It seemed that most of the mainline trains were running but the smaller connecting were not. Our connection from Windermere was cancelled, so we hired a taxi….who was late. Once our taxi arrived…20 minutes late….we hurried to load our luggage and get going. It was about 30 minutes to Oxenholme train station. And our train was set to leave in 43 minutes. I don’t like cutting it that close, especially with all ... read more

This blog entry is going to be completely indulgent, so please don't hold it against me as it was all a complete novelty for us! Anyway, we did the online check-in, as required, 24 hours before our flight and we discovered that we had been upgraded to Business Class, or "Club Class" as they call it on British Airways. Yippee - time to start gloating to our poor offspring, who are not coming with us on this holiday. We had tried to go for the Pod-Parking again (another novelty that we quite enjoyed - see ), but to park there for two weeks was way more expensive than just getting a taxi, so we went for that option instead. The flight was at 2.15pm, so that meant that we were able to leave home at a ... read more

SAT, 23 JUL 2022 TRAIN TO LONDON Rabbie's Tours, tour provider for the 5-Day Discover Wales Small-Group Tour from London, normally does not secure accommodations for any of the nights before, during or after the tour and there is no welcome reception or farewell dinner included in the tour; however, I learned that, because I had booked through Tourradar, it had secured those hotel rooms on my behalf for the four nights we would be on the road. With no hotel as a starting point, I chose a Comfort Inn within walking distance of the Monday morning meeting point, Greenline Coach Terminal. Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service that connects England with France, Belgium and the Netherlands via the Channel Tunnel which passes underneath the English Channel. I would catch the high-speed train (up to ... read more

Dear All Greetings from London. It is the beginning of the summer holidays, and I am once more on the eve of an epic summer journey. Although I have done summer journeys for the last two years, these were both based in the UK, and thus this is my first epic travel adventure abroad since 2019. I am excited. Tomorrow I head up north, to begin a five-and-a-half week trip around Scandinavia. I first fly to Oslo where I will be spending around two weeks travelling through southern Norway. Then I take a ferry over to the northern tip of Denmark for a few days, before catching another ferry right across the North Sea and into the Atlantic Ocean for a week on the Faroe Islands. From here I take a final ferry further north and ... read more