Blogs from Piccadilly, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

When I passed through immigration in London the border control only wanted to chat about the ash cloud. I didn't want to tell him that the skies were clear in Reykjavik because the ash cloud had moved to Scotland. I bought an unlocked phone at Carphone Warehouse because I didn't want to jailbreak my iphone 3G, which gives me enough problems without being jailbroken. It seemed to have issues talking to my old Vista computer, but now that I have Win 7 things have been going okay so far. The helpful sales associate quickly directed me to the cheapest phone in the store, at a price of three pounds (five dollars) with a ten pound top-up (meaning you have to buy a UK sim card with ten pounds loaded). I went to a Korean restaurant in ... read more

Had a late dinner with Bob and Rich last night at a restaurant just down the street from our hotel called The Warwick. Originally we were suppose to eat at a restaurant called Polpo’s (Alpo Dog Food as Bob would call it lol), an Italian restaurant our concierge recommended (he is from Italy and said it was his favorite in the city). The place was packed and the waiter kept telling us “just waiting for a table to clear”, which seemed like forever. We ended up leaving heading over to the Warwick instead (knuckles, Bob  - we really didn’t want to eat there anyways lol). It rained pretty good that night. When we got back to the hotel Chris took ½ an ambien and I took a whole one, he was woozy within 10 minutes, ... read more

Little tired today - I could NOT sleep last night. I skyped the girls around 4:30AM my time, right before their bedtime, which was nice because I got to say goodnight to them. I don't think I dozed off until 6AM. I woke up around 10AM. I really wanted to be up much earlier and go run in one of the London Park’s with Chris, but he let me sleep in. We'll try it tomorrow. The music in the lounge did finally die down around 11PM, but people kept moving furniture around until 5AM. It was like they were dragging a couch back and forth all night. This morning we asked to be moved and we are now on the 1st floor, definitely a down-graded room, but it’s cute, very shabby chic. As long as I ... read more

Woke up around 8AM this morning. We didn't go to sleep until midnight last night, even though we were exhausted! Dressed and out the door by 9AM and headed to Windsor Castle. Grabbed a muffin at the train station. We had to get on 3 different trains to get to Windsor. Decided against the guided tour, which was nice. We could arrive/leave on our own schedule. From the train station, we walked to Windsor Castle, which was maybe a 5 minute walk. The town of Windsor was really cool. It reminded us of what a Switzerland town would look like. Small cafe's with flowers overflowing in window boxes and small cobble-stone streets. We decided to head to the castle first then check out the town later. Windsor Castle was absolutely amazing. It's almost a 1,000 years ... read more

Hi Girls!! Hope you are doing well! I'm so glad we got to Skype with you earlier today. I tried skyping again little bit ago, but no answer. I will try again soon. Lily and Pad have been EVERYWHERE with us. They even went on the London Eye with us! I think you guys would really like it here. There are lots of people, EVERYWHERE! We have already picked you up a small gift (nope, not going to tell you what it is!). We saw the Tower of London today that was built in the 1080's. Almost a 1,000 years ago!! I'm getting ready to download the pictures from today so you can see everywhere they have been. How was soccer today? What did you get at the video store today? Miss you guys so much, ... read more