Blogs from Fulham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Neither Mark nor I had visited Fulham Palace Gardens, which is introduced in the Walking London’s Parks and Gardens. We decided to visit there on 13 August. We travelled to Putney Bridge on the District Line, and entered the garden from Bishop’s Avenue. Several tennis courts and lawn grounds were on the right side of Bishop’s Avenue. As we progressed, we found striking buildings – Coachman’s Lodge and Chauffeur’s House – appearing on our left hand. Coachman’s Lodge was designed by the Victorian architect William Butterfield, and featured mullioned and bay windows and triangle-shaped roofs: Neo-Gothic style. Fulham Palace was closed for being used for the planned event on 13 August 2016, but we were allowed to explore the grounds on the back of the building. There were an amazing variety of shrubs and ... read more

So today I went to my first professional football game aka soccer to us Americans. It was totally epic! It's custom to go to a pub and drink before you go to the game. We went to the Fulham Football Club stadium but we were on the Everton side. Thank goodness I don't follow football so I didn't really care which side I sat on. The way they check your tickets though is through bar code. You just slide your ticket under a scanner and they let you go through those rotating bars. It's actually really efficient rather than have someone check each ticket at a window. Also just at like rock concerts in the states you aren't allowed to have the lids on top of your drinks or bring your alcohol into the stands so ... read more

At 7:00 AM I am out the door, on my way to the train station. The sun is not yet up and I tramp along in near darkness, dawn blushing ever so faintly on the horizon. It's cold and my breath hangs in the air like a spritz of perfume. Only a few other souls have ventured out so early on a Sunday, and I imagine that I am in a disaster scenario movie where everyone else has fled or died or turned into zombies. We are the sole survivors. A few more people congregate at the train station but the carriages are hardly full--maybe 10 other people are in my car. We pull out of the station spot on time, just as the sun rubs the sleep from its eyes. As we make our way ... read more

So we got here safely after the long 25 hour flight. Dan used the eye patches to try and get to sleep, had a reaction to the material and ended up with bulbous lower lids for the first day of the trip...pretty bogus. I honestly thought they would pop when we got to Abu Dhabi, which was a blinging airport, looking forward to hanging out in the emirates some time in the future. Watched Avatar, invention of lying, the book of eli and fantastic mr fox on the plane, which really was awesome, it was one of my favourite books as a young chap! Anyway after a slight hitch with heathrow's arival information we met up with dans cousin estella and her uncle phil and made our way out to kent to relax a little and ... read more

Very quiet day today, after Greg left for Spain, I did some cleaning and sorting out the bathroom - there are no cabinets at all in the bathroom! so need to organize the toilettries... Louise, Greg's friend came by in the afternoon for tea :) It's going to be my first night alone in the house :(... read more