Blogs from Kensington, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 4

Today is the day Nikki & I go to pick up our rings before the wedding (Well pick up Nikki’s ring anyway, I got mine for Christmas), we both woke up really excited about getting her ring but the jewellers was not open until 11 so decided to take advantage of the fact with live in London (and the fact we had so much energy) to visit The Natural History Museum and The Victoria & Albert Museum. From the outside the Natural History Museum is an amazing building, it is absolutely huge (much like the queue), when we eventually got in you are greeted by a huge mould of a dinosaur skeleton, as you get closer the vastness of the museum becomes clear. The detail in the brick work is phenomenal with lots of little animals ... read more

Nellie and Monk went carol singing again this afternoon at the Albert Hall with Floss, Flower, Katrina, Moira and Urvashi. Concealed in Monk's man-bag, Nellie managed to get in without a ticket! The Christmas Carol Singalong is a yearly event, almost as well-known and eagerly awaited as The Proms in the summer. It's a mix of traditional Christmas carols and Christmas pop songs from over the decades - everything from 'Away in a Manger' to 'Winter Wonderland'. The conductor, Jonathan Cohen, seems to enjoy the event as much as the audience and, in addition to being multi-talented musically, he's a very entertaining presenter. It's one of the few carol concerts at which the audience is expected to join in. Today the audience was particularly good and the Mexican Wave looked as though it could have been ... read more

DAY 2 : OCT 26 Réveillés tot, en route pour le Natural History Museum à South Kensington. Beaucoup de monde on fait la queue, car les anglais sont aussi en vacances! (mid-term). On va tout de suite visiter la galerie des dinosaures avant qu'il y ait trop de monde. Certaines reproductions de dinosaures sont animées dont celle du T Rex, houla çà fait peur! Ensuite, un petit tour à la cafétéria du musée, beaucoup de monde, on a du mal à trouver une place mais les anglais ne passent pas beaucoup de temps à table, heureusement. On mange une super salade de pates au pesto, et de bons sandwiches. Maman est contente, on boit du très bon thé tout le temps ici! Puis, un tour dans la Red Zone et nous voici au centre de la ... read more

Hello all! And thanks for continuing to read our blog. Sorry for the delays its just been a bit hectic and coming back from busy days its not that easy to recount experiences when you're tired ha ha! We awoke the earliest for Day 4, at 6:25am and started getting ready for our tour of the day. We went downstairs for our continental breakfast and ate up quickly as our tour bus was coming to pick us up from the hotel at 8am. When the bus arrived, we gave our tickets and sat and relaxed as the bus hit a few more hotels to pick up fellow travelers until it reached our bus destination of Victoria coach station. From there we had to change buses to find our one that we would be on for ... read more

Hey everyone, thanks for all the comments its great to hear from you all. Today was soooo much better than yesterday! We went to sleep before 8pm our time and I woke up at around 5am. I felt really rested as I had like 9+ hours of much needed sleep. I walked into the bathroom with my laptop and chatted on msn and facebook quietly a bit trying not to disturb Dad. With that said he woke up not much later and we sort of just relaxed in the room. I seem to think we have a haunted room though as I kept noticing strange noises coming from the closest. Of course when I mentioned it to Dad the noises never happened again...we've decided to name our live-in ghost George. Later we went downstairs to ... read more