Blogs from England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 1709

Hello my friends! Well yesterday was a bit of a mixed day.... I went to meet Robynne (mom's friend who came over from SA for the wedding) before she flew home. We met outside Harrods and had a shop around and then went for a Krispy Kreme and a coffee (Harrods have a Krispy Kreme!!! I had original glazed and a maple icing one - the maple iced KK is EXCELLENT!!!) So after Rob left I decided that instead of going back to dad's (1 hr journey) I would kill some time in London until I had to meet Nick Berry. So it was about 3pm and I was meeting Nick at 7pm - 4 hours in london should be theoretically easy to kill... It's not unless you want to spend a ridiculously huge amount of ... read more

Jon, Camille and I had another unbelievable day in London. Jon hit Moss Bros early this morning to pick up his morning coat and top hat. Once we were all dressed, Robert our driver picked us up and took us to Opening day of Royal Ascot. One of the Queen’s favorite pastimes in horseracing and this is her horseracing party. The grounds are truly amazing and this year was the second year of the new building and they have really perfected everything. Once we were in the Royal Enclosure. We went to the Parade Ring to watch The Queen, Camilla, Prince Charles and others ride in by horse and carriage and then go to the Royal Box. We all had a bit of lunch, pimm’s cups and champagne and then bet on the first race, ... read more

So seen as I will never probably meet any real stars while in London, at least I can pretend I have!!! here is the photo evidence to prove it!! what an interesting place Madam Tussauds is, kind of like walking onto the red carpet. I enjoyed just sitting back watching all the tourists, its great how they have a few live actors interspersed amongst the wax figurines . . . . . then every so often they would move . . . . and see how people jump!!!! Of course I got my picture with a couple of my favourites . . . and here they are... read more

Although it's been two days, it feels to all of us that Monday and Tuesday have been smeared together into one, long stretch of a day. We began driving to Houston and on the way through security, Caroline had to get specially searched because of all the jewlery she had on. It ended up being the earrings. Thanks a lot, Ellie. The flight was long and pretty uncomfortable, at least in my opinion. But we got to watch movies and got served dinner and breakfast. (Who eats turkey sandwiches for breakfast?? That's what I'd like to know.) We finally arrived after a nine hour, overnight flight. London is great, very busy. Kind of like New York. But not. I don't know how to explain it. Our cab driver, Cyrus, was very talkative but the downside ... read more

Hi all, thanks again to all that made it along, and sorry to those who didn't make it, you missed out on a great start to the summer! After torrential rain all afternoon, the sky cleared up for a gorgeous eve of boozing, barbequing and some pretty illuminating speeches. Man of the match goes to Alan 'frogman' Beverly, who after losing his car keys during his evening of debauchery, braved the night bus in full costume.. a true lad. The party almost ended on a sour note when for the upteenth time the shisha pipe was knocked over and charcoal burned through Ouain's shorts while he quietly slumbered; luckily he walked away unscathed & intact with the help of rich's nimble fingers removing the offending charcoal from Mr Dineen's crotchal region. After such a great ... read more