I’m in London, England now. Staying at my good friend Irina and her husband, Andres’ house. My 8 hour layover in Oslo wasn’t too bad. Much nicer airport than Frankfurt, certainly. There was duty-free shopping and plenty of nice restaurants to keep me occupied. When I arrived in London, I had my first true customs Read More »
On Thursday we made our way into London Blackfriars Station and, armed with scalding coffee, made our way down the riverside walk on the north bank of the Thames, where construction projects dominate the landscape and joggers on lunch from professional jobs huff by in the breezy but somewhat polluted air. Cranes tower above the Read More »
Yes! We’re off to London! My friends Tanya and Amisha, and I decided to make use of our winter break from Rutgers and do some traveling. We ultimately decided on London because of its wide array of activities and because there is no language barrier to cross. We flew Virgin Airlines, and a good thing Read More »
Day One Arrived at Heathrow Airport at 4.30pm on Monday and then caught a bus to Luton which is half an hour from London on the train. However the bus seemed to take ages! I could hardly keep my eyes open and we didn’t get to Luton until after 8pm so by then we had Read More »
Tuesday, 12/25/2007 We’ve arrived! (London Heathrow airport, 1 pm, GMT) We met our good friend, Davin, and our soon-to-be good friend, Trent, at the London Heathrow airport. From the airport, we took a bus to Paddington Station, which was a short walk from our Days Inn hotel. Upon check-in, we discovered that our hotel room Read More »
We returned to London on Sunday May 28, 2006 on the Eurostar. This time we stayed at the Thistle hotel in Marble Arch. It is right on Oxford Street, with its shopping and bustle, like living on 5th Avenue in New York. Oxford St has lots of clothing stores, H&M, Zara, Marks & Spencer, Selfridges, Debenhams, etc. Read More »
September 22, 2006 Wow. There is so much to say, I don’t even know where to start. We just got back to my apartment from seeing The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Haymarket Square- just a bit away from Piccadilly Circus. The musical was amazing, but I have so much to Read More »
We have decided to start off the year by seeing London. Since arriving we really haven’t seen a whole lot of London and we feel that we have been taking advantage of living here. We spent a few hours touring Westminister Abbey and it was amazing. I have been there before but Patrick hadn’t. Going Read More »
Alex, my roommate at St. Giles Hotel stumbled throughout the hotel (walls are paper thin and I could hear him a couple floors down at our friends’ rooms). In the morning, he couldn’t find his passport = uh oh. I woke up at 8:30 AM to get some breakfast that was paid for. I had some weird Read More »
Well, we have officially completed our first travel adventure outside of London, one of many more to come no doubt. Ange somehow managed to round up a pair of tickets to the Manchester United v Blackburn carling cup tie as well as some cheap coach tickets and a night in a really gorgeous hotel. So Read More »
