Page 11 of Palmers travels Travel Blog Posts


Europe » United Kingdom December 27th 2013

Geo: 51.5001, -0.126236We started off the day with a full English breakfast followed by a huge walk through Hyde Park, past Winter Wonderland and headed down towards Buckingham Palace where there is always tourists there taking photos!We continued on to Trafalgar Square when it started to rain. Then a bit further down the road we saw some guards on horses and the start of maybe the changing of the guards. Then we found a red phone box and had our photos taken. We continued to Westminster Abbey, bought some things from the Abbey then headed towards the London Eye and had some lunch in an English Pub. We bought our tickets for the London Eye and a river cruise but we will be doing this on Saturday, then continued to Convent Gardens,such a quaint area, we ... read more
A walk in the park !
Buckingham Palace
Clarence House

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London December 25th 2013

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236Our flight landed safely at 4.40am,we had a long flight of 13.5 hours from Hong Kong , once it became late, I was constantly up due to toilet breaks and just stretching my legs and happened to start talking to some people who were sipping on champagne and seemed to be having a good time, so they asked if I wanted a champagne to celebrate Christmas Day so why not!!!!Clint eventually came down the back too and was lucky enough to get some champagne too. When we finally got to Heathrow Airport, everything in the airport was shut, London just shuts down on Christmas Day!! Believe it or not!!Our transport to the hotel collected us and took us to the Castleton Hotel,when we arrived , their computer was down and the man behind the ... read more
Our Hotel
Squirrels in Hyde Park
Buckingham Palace

Asia » China December 24th 2013

Geo: 22.33, 114.18Our plane trip to Hong Kong was very squishy, the seats being so close to the ones in front of us and this is the same plane we are on for London too, this flight is 9 hours and the next flight will be 13 hours ! The baby in front of us kept us amused for a little while, obviously from Hong Kong. When we got off the plane we looked at duty free shopping but we didn't buy anything here as we thought we would wait till London.Melanie and Nikki charged their phones while we decided to go for a short walk down the long terminal to check out what was there, more shops and food places, then Nikki sends us text saying they started boarding...... Panic, that means we had to ... read more
On the plane to Hong Kong
Hong Kong airport
On the plane to Hong Kong

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney December 24th 2013

Geo: -33.8671, 151.207Well the day has finally come for us to leave in our trip to Europe , we left a nice warm sunny Adelaide and we were on our way to Sydney to catch our Virgin Atlantiic flight. Next destination is Hong Kong which is a 9 hour flight !! Our bags have been booked right through to London so we are hoping they will be there when we get there !... read more
Leaving Sydney
Sydney




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