Blogs from London City, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 7

After a slow start to the morning Sam and I ventured into the centre of the city to go and visit FIGO. We departed the train at Victoria station, which is one of the main stations in London. As you walk out of the station one of the first buildings that you see is the theatre that performs Billy Elliot. FIGO is located very close to New Scotland Yard. FIGO was fairly quiet as it is the party conference season here at the moment. It was good though to catch up with Colin and James. Whilst anything is an option at the moment, i am hoping to change my flight back to the FI from the 18th to the 22nd December, the result being i am not weight listed. It was also very good to see ... read more

After waking up early and blogging day 1 I was far too excited to go back to sleep and daylight was sneaking through. Strangely at this early hour I reflected upon rural development, in that I was in London, a global technology hub and boiling a kettle on the gas stove. Last time his happened to me I melted an electric one staying with friends in New Zealand. Of course Sam and Anna are aware of electric kettles, they are just in the process of moving house! I often get excited about the tiniest of things, today's first excitement was utilising ITV player over the Internet (unlimited broadband I may add). What a great app along with BBC iplayer. X factor and a cup of tea it was, does it get more British than that! ( ... read more

Miss Kika (the black cat missing in action so far) suddenly appeared for breakfast today! She gave Chris a hiss, ate some grub, then took off again. At least we know she's okay but she doesn't stick around long enough for me to even grab a photo of her! After our own breakfast we headed out for a day of sightseeing. We began at the off-sale/corner store to buy an Oyster card. This is like a cash card for the busses and subways. A 5 GBP deposit gets you a card (refundable when you're done with it) and we each put 20 GBP onto our cards. Your subway entrance and exit is quick and easy by tapping the card and the cost taken from it averages about half price so it is well worth getting this. ... read more

Ich kann es nicht glauben, ich bin in London!! Endlich! Ich habe es mir schon so lange gewünscht, aber es nie geschafft. Aber ich bin auch soooo kaputt. Eigentlich will ich nur noch schlafen. Unser Bus ist Mittwochabend erst mit einer Stunde Verspätung losgefahren, weshalb wie gestern Morgen auch mit einer Stunde Verspätung angekommen sind. Ist nicht ganz so tragisch, war trotzdem erst halb 9. Geschlafen habe ich kaum, denn – man mag es kaum sagen – im Gegensatz zu den brasilianischen Fernbussen war der hier scheiße unbequem und eng. Nach Ankunft haben wir uns direkt unseren Weg zum Hostel gesucht um unsere Taschen abzustellen. Einchecken konnten wir natürlich noch nicht, aber immerhin konnten wir uns auf der Toilette etwas frisch machen und umziehen. Dann sind wir auch sofort los in die Stadt um unsere Touristentour ... read more

It seemed like only moments later and we were up and going again. We headed down to check out breakfast but with a queue nearly out of the door we voted to set off and find subsistence on the way. Woolly says – I was pretty hungry but had to trust to Jo and Zoe that food wouldn’t be long in arriving, a handy Starbucks provided us with fruit toast, tea and juice, sorted. Keeping my paws tucked in we were back to the underground, I lost track of the stations and the escalators until we found ourselves outside Tower Bridge and the other side of the Thames. A short stroll through the wonderful smells of Borough market and the remains of Winchester Palace was a trip in itself. We paused at the Golden Hind for ... read more