Blogs from Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 717

well tomorrow heralds the very end of my Alevels, and the start of a very long holiday...i can't believe secondary education is finally going to be over! anyway, as soon as i get out of that exam hall it's up to covent garden to get a backpack , and then the rest of next week is going to be a blur of booking remaining hostels, buying travel insurance, getting traveller's cheques and the all-important interrail ticket, and general panicking on my part about whether we have everything we need. but in just under 10 days we're going to be on a ferry heading towards Amsterdam and Europe. and i can't wait! just so i've got it safely in here , here's the route we're taking. now i don't know where it's going to be put on ... read more

The Adventure begins. LONDON, 20-26.06.2006 In the beginning of June we decided to take a trip to London, UK. We bought plane tickets for 5000 EEK (Estonian Kroon), which is about 160 € per face (including airport taxes). Thanks to a very popular website www.orkut.com we found ourselves accomodation. There are some communities in orkut for Estonians who live in foreign countries. Lynn decided to contact some Estonian girls, who live in London and we paid them just for water and gas. Altogether we paid them 1000 EEK (60 €) for 6 nights. The cheapest hostel I could find in London was 2500 EEK (160 €) per person for 6 nights. So we were quite lucky. Day number one At 8 am our trip started from Tallinn Ülemiste Airport. Our flight was Tallinn - Prague - ... read more

Day 19-21 Arrived: London, England (dinner) Accommodation: The (London) Tower Hotel first impression = can't believing we're staying here/ breath- taking view room type = St. Katherine's Suite shower = try huge tub the size of a jacuzzi tip = splurge Gone.. Go Trippin' If you think we've tone down our trip thus far, then call the toning over because we are going out with a bang.. to our wallets! We got lucky on our hotel which we booked through Expedia. What a deal. We could not believe it that we had to ask the front desk lady twice to make sure we were at the right hotel. We didn't necessarily fit in with our giant backpacks and our laid back wardrobe, but we were assured we were in the right place. We arrived just in ... read more

Namaste (Thats hello in Hindi - see this can be an educational blog as much as an entertaining one) Well I never - I fly out to Delhi today. Well tonight at 10pm. I've got a whole day in front of me to pack, eat chicken, get travellers cheques and play with getting some cds onto my pda. Lets hope I survive since I have on various occasions nearly thrown myself, laptop and pda out the window in annoyance at none of it working. So I've got a hotel booked and a taxi booked from the airport. A man with a nice yellow card will come and find me. This is pretty organised. Well that's 4 of 180 days sorted anyway. Had a nice evening last night with sisters and friends with everyone giving me one ... read more

If you have ever seen the movie "Terminal" with Tom Hanks, you may remember the scene where he is shaving in the bathroom and another guy says "do you ever feel like your living in an airport?" Thats how me and my team feel right now. We are on the begining end of an allnighter before a 7:00 am flight to munich to get a connector to st petersburg! So im not sure how much sleep i'll get or anything, but we'll soon see i suppose. This week has been sort of transitional, i feel like i am ready to go to st petersburg btu they have been putting us through cultural training that is pretty important, so i guess i had to wait. I dont really like travel to much either ( the airport part) ... read more