London Travel Blogs - Page 5

So it was time for another Meet up. Mike had kindly organised a full day of sight seeing/eating/drinking through London. the day started at 10 am in the Liberty Bounds pub opposite the Tower of London. I had been up for hours already and was starving so ordered myself a breakfast. There were about …

Having been an international traveller since the year dot, I started to put together a travel diary as of the summer of 2005, just after I had purchased my first ever digital camera. It all seemed so fitting, and timely then, that the first entry to this travel diary was London, my home nation'…

Last year in September I visited London for the first time. Love the underground and busses. So travel in London is so so nice! You can get anywhere at anytime. And London does not have to cost much! Ofcourse you need to go in the eye of London (oké this is expensive), see the (not …

Once again we started the day with big plans to see LOTS of things in London. And once again, we were foiled by one really excellent museum, where we ended up spending the whole day. It was a really good day though. We started by taking the Underground to Tower Hill station. When we exited, we foun…

Half-asleep I dragged my self to the changing of the guard, one of London’s most sought after tourist attractions, despite its frequency.  I say half-asleep, not beacuse the hour was ridiculous, on the contrary, it was arounds 9am when I left, no, I refer more to the severe lack of sleep…

I was shocked by the heat, humidity and general sweatiness... ...that's right... sat in Terminal 4 at London Heathrow awaiting my connecting flight to Beijing. I'm sat eating a chicken,bacon and mustard wedge and drinking a coffee from the Coffee Republic with my rucksack sat on a trolley. P…

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Today we wanted to do a little more of the not-to-miss London stuff, starting with the changing of the guard which we hadn't seen yet.  Well, guess what?  Still haven't seen it.  Because the Olympics are comin in 2012 to London there's going to be a HUGE celebration on Sunday right a…

The cab picked us up at 5 am and we checked in easily. Almost nobody was at the counters. We found a place to have a sandwich and we know that the trip really was started. Our flight to London was on time, but it was ruined by waiting at heathrow airport to find a place for the plain to unload. It …

My first trip to London was back in February of 1995.  I had a pass on Virgin Atlantic that cost me a whopping $29!  I used the pass to fly Los Angeles to London/Heathrow and back on flights VS8 nad VS7, both 747-400 aircraft.  It rained the whole time I was there but that did not st…

A bit hungover after a great night at Bar 55 last night, didn't get up till 1 pm, ooofff my head :( I had some time to kill before the EURO 2008 Final so I did a bit of sightseeing, atleast stuff I haven't seen before in London.  I checked out the Tower Bridge, the Financial District, the Gher…

So today is my very last day living in London after being here for 14 months. I can't believe that my time here is finally coming to an end. I am gonna miss London alot, and mostly the good people I have known since being here. But onto bigger and better things. This is the start of my 3 month jour…

Tonight, my mum and I went to the Royal Albert Hall for one of the Proms.  The Proms are an important British tradition.  The rough idea, established 115 years ago, was that normal people should be able to afford to go to “promenade concerts,” top quality classical music in an informa…

Absence of a caption on some of the pics means that I need help with one or more names or screen-names, please!Kick-off was at 6 pm at the Fify Five Bar in Camden Town, the time being chosen to take advantage of the 2-4-1 offer on cocktails during the happy hour, which period is also doubled and ac…

The meet up was by the standards set by the previous week - alcohol free.. but that's only because the previous week was hosted at 55 and this week I was standing in All Bar One, surrounded by the office set....