Changing of the Guard @ Buckingham Palace

Squally showers in London

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May 17th 2006
We arrived in London last night. A long 12 hour flight! Service was great again but 12 hours on a plane is still very long! Arriving at Heathrow was not as straight forward as Singapore. There was a loooong line at customs! Then, the transfer guy kept calling my phone…but I didn’t know it was the transfer guy. He had a really heavy accent and so I couldn’t understand him (or maybe he couldnâ ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more