Blogs from Walthamstow, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

a full english breakfast consists of all of the following: tea or coffee toast with marmalade or jam 2 eggs 2 bacon 2 sausages black pudding (blood sausage, my favourite!) baked beans fried tomatoes fried mushrooms fried bread and sometimes a potato/hash brown patty. i only tackled this breakfast once at a hotel/pub i was staying at in the lake district. it was included with the room so i had to have it. :) i've been doing some more exploring of london, mostly from above looking down. my new ukranian friend elena and i went to sky gardens in london. it is a high rise building built in 2015 offering a 360 degree view of the city from the 35th floor. i think it is much better than the london eye which is expensive and not ... read more

Well its been 4 days now since arriving back in London and because it was my first proper travel experience i am struggling to adjust back to normal life. In the end it was more then just a holiday, it was an experience far deeper then anything else. A Journey: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine I only started the book and I want to read it all! People go on holidays to lie on the beach, watch the sights or get drunk in a hotel bar but there is so much more to each country on this earth then places designed for tourists. You won't realize though until you actually go behind the façade, leave the guides behind and explore on your own, ... read more

Having stayed up so late with Bree on Friday, Saturday morning was a bit sluggish to say the least. In fact I passed on the morning completely and went straight through to the weekend. Bree was also struggling but at least managed to venture outside, even though it was only for a manicure. I guess I was struggling, it had been quite a run of busy days starting with the overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, and it felt like I hadn’t really stopped since then, so I managed to justify an idle day. At 6pm we met up with Layla, Hayden, Layla’s brother John and her mate Ross near Liverpool Street station. I worked near there for 2 years, but don’t remember ever visiting a pub called ‘Dirty Dicks’. We all had a couple ... read more

Still reeling from our visit to the Indian embassy to get our visas. No problem we thought....we're prepared to wait for a bit. We'd applied online, booked our appointment slot and STILL had to wait - a bit like the deli counter at Tesco, take your ticket and wait for your number. Strange thing though..people kept going to the counters WITHOUT tickets!! We clocked this after about half an hours wait. From getting a little bit annoyed we both started to become quite annoyed in our disbelief at how blatent some people were doing it. I'm sorry but it doesn't matter that your 80 years old...we've been waiting for an hour too!!! To make matters worse the screen showing the ticket numbers just wasn't moving either. Oh the joys of bureacracy!! I think the best was ... read more

Well we meet again dear friends, Let's hope this trip is not like the Matrix Reloaded which is all about the glitz, glamour and cgi with very little substance and no story. Wait a sec, up until now that's pretty much what my life is like, obviously without the cgi (as i insist on doing all my own stunts). Jokes aside hoping this really will be the honeymoon to beat all honeymoons, the power of wifi and ipaq should mean this maybe gets updated a little more often that last time. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we will. The wedding went absolutely brilliantly, the sun came out after 2 weeks of being grey and everyone had a really good time, including us. It was a magical and special day and one will ... read more