Blogs from London City, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 120

I am here in London and it is just as expensive and smelly as I remember and yet I always have a good time when I am here!! Anyways, I went to the big tour leader interview yesterday and it was pretty stressful - lots of role play etc and I have no idea how it went. I can't tell if it went well or absoltely horribly .. . hopefully they'll give me a call to let me know that the job is mine!! I'm heading back to York tonight and it's back to reality --- gotta find a job somewhere in the countryside to save tons of money and then who knows? I have a few leads but am very tight on the cash front so hopefully I'll be able to get something quickly and ... read more

Hi All, Well the title for today came from one of the nice people in Westminster Abbey. But before I get to that here is what I did today. I rook my stuff (big giant backpack - 6800 cubic inches not including the baby one that zips on - to Victoria Bus Station. It was really not so bad, once you get the waiste buckle done you are all good. 10:30 in the evening did not come fast enough. It felt like forever. But it did come and then the night, the long long night bus ride to Edinbough. The smelly drunk behind me - you know every drunck has that stale alcohol oder to them that gets worse as the night goes on. You pray he quites talking so his foul order he calls breath ... read more

Hi All, Well, I guess I will start by an explanation of MIND THE GAP - gotta find a T-shirt with that. I bought a tube pass, so I could save a little time on the feet. As a train is approaching you hear over the speakers, mind the gap. They have such formal, but cute, sayings for things over here. Mind the Gap (watch the space or something like that). Take away = to go, learned this one at Starbucks - Carmel Marchiato's are almost universal. Much stronger over here - not so sugary - I like them much better. Dad would even get used to the fufu drinks!! Yea before I forget QUE = line - gotta love it. On Monday not much luck with site seeing - just kind of wonder aimlessly around ... read more

London, UK. One of the largest and most famous cities in Europe. More tourist attractions and sights in one concentrated area than most other places. Enough to create memories for a lifetime for the average person. My first visit left one single impression. Ok, I was six, not an age when you absorb and appreciate the might of a world city. So, what out of all these sites caught my attention to the extent that it left an unerasable memory? A safe bet would be being in the crowd of an Arsenal-Tottenham derby at Highbury. The derby of derbys in the world of soccer; the sport that I eat, breathe and live. Nope. Maybe Madame Thoussauds wax cabinet, already at the time an impressive collection of wax dolls? Nope. What then of the impressive constructions of ... read more

Small digression from postings about Toronto - when I travelled more to Europe one thing that struck me was all the references to Hemmingway - where he slept, ate and wrote etc. One such location was the Dorchester hotel on Park Lane, NE side of High Park. There is this bookstore on the north side of Cambridge Circus I always go to when I was in London - black and red interior. Was going to Madrid that weekend so was reading about Hemmingway (was into bullfights and much of his writing is about Spain) and they detailed some of his stays in London. One hotel he stayed in was the Dorchester. Decided I would go there for a beverage so took the tube I beleive it was Elephant and Castle stop and walked south. Quite a ... read more