Blogs from London City, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 113

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It takes around 40 minutes to take the tube from Heathrow, into Earls Court station. Just around the corner is the Mayflower Hotel. Our room is small but comfortable. We had a delicious meal at an Indian Restaurant, very nice. It's odd seeing Policeman walking around the streets. It's a shame that we can't have them doing that at home. Apparently Chelsea won today, It seems that football fans, who have too much lager on board, are loud and obnoxious whereever you go. When we left the Train Station we came out onto Warwick Road. In front of us was Earl's Court Exhibition Centre. Kylie Minogue was putting on an "exhibition" that night. A fat guy wanted to sell us some tickets. "ooo waans a teeckit fo kylee then". We decided to watch TV instead. ... read more
Trebovir Road
Trebovir Road Again
Exhibition Centre


Hello Everyone, well we finally made it to an internet cafe, it took us asking some woman on the train, going through Trafalgar Square, passing through the Cinema/Theatre area, then moving through the Gay/Redlight district (Soho, for those who've been), and just outside of China Town. So here we are... it has been a fantastic two days so far. As expected we were wrecked after the 9 hour flight and then 1.5 hour bus ride into London... we didn't sleep at all on the flight and it was kind of a gong not knowing what we were doing/where we were going once we got off the plane. Some guy had a sign to pick up Dopey and Sleepy but i guess it wasn't for us (although it could've been). We stayed in our first dive hostel ... read more
Buckingham Palace Gate
Proof
Westminster Abbey


Just a quick note to say that we have arrived and have successfully survived the first night in London. We are staying at Nirelles (a friend or mine) for a couple of nights but there really isnt too much room to stay much longer, so at this stage we are going to stay at another friends place on thursday and are currently looking for a flat for us to hang out in for a while. Cerian (who we will be crashing with shortly) is quite keen to head out of town for the weekend this weekend so quite a possibilty of heading to Paris Prague and somewhere. Today we have updated emails and the money situation and will be going to buy me a England sim card and sign up with temp agencies etc. Gotta go ... read more
Chiswick

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City April 30th 2005

i'm back in the city now! had a great week with the family in malvern. didn't do a whole lot more than the last entry. i basically ate a lot and slept a lot!! it was fantastic! it's amazing how much you appreciate your own room - even only after a couple of weeks! now back to the delightful dorm rooms. lucky me. had a shocking trip back on the train. it was only supposed to take 2.5 hours. instead it took nearly 5 hours!! they were doing work on the tracks - lucky me. oh well i made it eventually. mary, fran, emma and robert saw me off at the station - very nice. not much fun to be leaving them. but adventures are calling. malvern is a nice little suburb with 2 main centres. ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City April 30th 2005

London the Grey, the wonderful wonderful Grey......... A splash of colour would not hurt the decor.... Arrived from Zurich, checked into my hostel in Bayswater, obviously designed for midgets. Lovely and clean but spacially deficient. Straight into Mark & Spencers for a cookie, salad and chicken stash then across the road into the Park.... Kensington... Hyde, can´t remember which. It was big, had lakes, monuments to Alfie and Vic, a small insubstantial palace that always looked more impressive on TV and a swag of tourists. Continued along and saw Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park Corner, Big ben, Millenium Wheel and stayed out walking until midnight taking late night piccies of the sights and getting myself completely lost. Cutting across Hyde Pk in the middle of the night certainly opened up the opportunity to meet some interesting characters. ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City April 22nd 2005

Well, our time in England has run out. We will miss England, and all the fine people that have made our visit here, one to remember. We met family, we've made new friends, and the memories we bring back home will last a lifetime. Cheerie-O to all, we have every intention of returning in the future. To paraphrase the great Frank Sinatra; Thanks for the memories, Of things we can’t forget, Journeys on a jet, Tea with clotted cream and A ride on Eurostar, How lucky we are. We are very lucky indeed, to have such wonderful family and friends. We're off to the continent of Europe, London to Paris by way of the TGV (train à grande vitesse, French for "high-speed train"). Stay tuned, we'll report from Belguim, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the ... read more
Holly "the Ricknik" with her carry-on backpack
We're off

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City April 20th 2005

Went to the Premiere of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in Leicester Square. I only went to see Alan Rickman who didn't turn up, but it was quite interesting to see how it all works anyway. I did feel a bit sorry for the woman who were all very skimpily clad in the cold while all the blokes got to wear suits. Was a bit of a b-list movie so didn't get to see anyone overly famous. And it takes the fun out of stalking when you get told when and where the celebrities are going to be and they parade in front of you.... read more
Stephen Fry
Anna Chancellor
The press

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City April 18th 2005

Caught the bus into the city today and am now at the royal national contiki hotel. Met up with 8 people from my tour so far, have our meeting at 7pm so will meet the rest then. Leave at 6am tomorrow, so will try to have an early night tonight. Had our pre tour meeting at London Coffee and met heaps more people. There's a few South Africans, Canadians, Americans, Kiwis and of course lots of Aussies. Our tour manager is Amanda and our driver's name is Marty. Went to Tesco with Nat and Brigitte and got some pasta for dinner, then met up with the others at the London pub for a beer. My room mates are a Japanese girl who's going on the discovery hotel tour tomorrow, and I haven't met the other girl, ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City April 17th 2005

Im glad that so many people are checking out this site, unfortunately i dont have enough time to respond to everyone, sorry guys especially with issues arising in Dubrovnik where i may have to skip that flight and write off €64 which really sucks. I didnt think a Croatian hostel would be booked this far in advance, especially in April. Oh well... Well I went out with Ken and got some sushi for dinner which was decent and not too expensive, and then went out got a beer at Midas and then picked up a beer on the way to the bar, gotta love no open container laws. Well last night was my first *real* night out in London. I went with Ken, Craig ( a new aussie) and a French guy. We went to this ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City April 16th 2005

So last night not much was going on and honestly my legs were killing me from the walk to the Tower of London. I chilled in the common room with the Irish guy Ken and watched a couple movies until about 12:30am and got some Burger King, £4.55 or almost $9 for a chicken sandwich, quite the deal i must say. The burgers are dirt cheap but im not getting any ground beef here in the U.K. with the mad cow disease and all. Actually most people here seem to be staying away from it. I got up this morning around 12 as I think I slept through my alarm clock...oops. But I showered up and headed down to the common room agin to watch a bit of tv before heading out. Until today ive gone ... read more




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