Blogs from United Kingdom, Europe - page 2237

Ahh the xmas social....so to start. 2 long tables, winter vegetable soup, a full turkey dinner, crumble desert and so much more! Jeffro sang a few songs (one absolutely hilarious one), we all got secret santa gifts (oh yes back to when I was 9 with the super soaker!), and then craziness ensued. Ange had an interesting and plagiarized speech from Nimble and everyone drank a lot of wine. The jelly contest: 5 teams of 5-6 had to eat an entire frisbee worth of jelly, with your face and the fastest time wins! My team: Tank (ie Tristan), Bryn, Rod, Dan, and a forgotten fifth (sorry!) We did pretty good, coming in second I think. It wasn't too bad and was actually a lot of fun. A lot of people that haven't been around in a ... read more

It's 6:30 in the morning here in London and I just returned to my hotel room from the end-of-tour Marillion concert and after-shows "festivities"! Thus, this will be a very brief update before I attempt to sleep for a few hours. Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours at the RAF Museum. It was excellent, but not quite as good as the Museum of Flight in Seattle. After a brief return to the hotel in order to change clothes, I headed out to Kentish Town and The Forum. My experiences at the soundcheck, concert, aftershow party, and post-aftershow birthday celebration will have to be written about in a future entry - when I've returned home and can type faster on a "real" keyboard! I must mention quickly that the night (and wee hours of this morning) ... read more

I have finally settled into Bournemouth and have celebrated a few of my favorite holidays-American-British Style. Here are few pictures of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas Party and few night outs! FYI-my first time hosting a thanksgiving and ending up having 23 guests from 10 different countries, 2 9 lb turkeys, the electricty going out and lots of wine!! It was a good time...... read more

I took the "slow" train into London; a round-trip ticket on Southern cost £18 - 6 pounds less than the Gatwick Express. It made a couple of stops along the way (including Clapham Junction which I was familiar with from my previous visit). Total time to Victoria Station was about 45 minutes. By this time, I was hungry for some lunch (it was about 11:30) so I decided to eat at Victoria. Much of the old station is "open" to the outside with the various entrances and train tunnels; it being fairly cold and drafty, I started looking for an eatery that was enclosed so I could warm up some. I finally discovered the food court on the third level and had a chicken salad at KFC. That, and a small soda cost £3.79 - London ... read more