Blogs from Islington, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

Hello all, I have had quite a busy week filled with travels, ups and downs, cyclists threatening my life and so much more. But honestly, I love it here. I know this is where I am supposed to be. We took a trip to Camden Town for a bit and it was great to get out of Kings Cross for a bit. Today I think we're going to the largest thrift shop district in london (here they are vintage stores so sometimes it is pricey but always a good time). I met a kid, Turner who reminds me so much of Jacob that it's nice to be around him. Makes me miss home less. I really love it here and I am planning a trip with some people to Paris for a weekend. I don't have ... read more

As Nikki and I decided to have an almost stress free wedding by going to Sweden, just the two of us, to get married there we thought we’d have a wedding reception back home in the UK to celebrate with friends and family. But being that we had the most untraditional wedding ever we thought that we should keep the ‘untraditional’ theme by having not one but two wedding receptions, the first of which we had in our garden over four months after our actual wedding. Why did we have such a big gap between our wedding and the reception? To wait for good weather of course and we were lucky that we actually had good weather plus if we'd have had it in February we wouldn't have been able to make a very big announcement ... read more

To begin this blog we really must start at the beginning, which means the arrival at Heathrow airport on the 1st of December. Many people said to us that it never snows in London, that it is cold and miserable and full of grey sludge. They could not have been more wrong! What we saw the moment we emerged from the airport underground was a winter wonderland. Snow was everywhere and we had arrived at the beginning of one of the coldest London Decembers on record. Our trip on the Picadilly line into London central took us through quaint London suburbs which were covered in white powder neither of us had seen before; snow. The rustic outer suburbs of London were covered in snow and it added to the charm we had come to expect from ... read more

Hey all. It's been awhile since the last blog, sorry about that. Well, Allie and I spent 4 great days in London. We got there around 7am from an overnight bus. Lemme tell ya, one thing we will absolutely not do in any future traveling is travel overnight or early morning by bus. It is way too exhausting. We didn't get much sleep again and arrived at Victoria Station around morning rush hour. The Victoria Station is in a 'posh' part of town. It is really close to Buckingham Palace, a close walk to the Houses of Parliment, etc. I will get to that later. One of the things about that particular station is that it is a main hub where a lot of the tube lines meet and people can transfer to different lines, trains, ... read more

What a long day we had yesterday! Mariel was still sick, so Lauren and I adventured to "the sea" with her cousins Alex and Adie. We went to the town of Brighton which was very, very cute. There were streets lined with shops--vintage clothing shops, music shops, candy shops, bakeries--everything! Alex, the older cousin who is now 25, went to the university in Brighton so for him it was his home away from home. We had to take a bus, the Tube, and then another overground-train, to get there, but it was worth it. The boys wanted to take us to Brighton because there was this HUGE gay pride festival going on--for free (everything in London/England seems to be free!). I feel like living in Santa Cruz, visiting San Francisco often, we know how proud and ... read more