After our morning Eurostar fiasco, we arrived in London: the land of the football (soccer) crazed fans, C’mon England! I became an England fan in 2002 during my first trip to Europe and we were in London during that World Cup (held that year in Korea, but Leicester Square was insane). We didn’t have any problems adjusting Read More »
London, Oxford and Nottingham were all neat. Very different experience in England this time with friends as opposed to family. I’ll keep this short as I am typing this weeks after my trip: Highlights “This is the voice of God” The single bed room hotel in London that felt like the size of my closet. Still Read More »
Thursday, August 31, 2006 We arrived Thursday morning about 8 AM after an 8 hour flight from Dallas. That would be midnight Wednesday on California time. The flight was mostly smooth and went by quite quickly. Even though we were jet lagged, we pushed on and found a train from Gatwick airport to Victoria Station Read More »
We weren’t sure what to expect of the Tower of London, but we were so impressed with what we did see, it was probably one of our highlights. Definitely a whole day is required to fully explore this place. It was much bigger than we had expected and it’s so well looked after and in Read More »
November 1, 2006 Admittedly, these blog entries would be much better had I actually written them anytime near the dates about which I am writing, but I will have to depend on my memory and the aid of pictures to help these little stories along. I was really impressed by seeing the subway drive out Read More »
After arriving in London on Saturday afternoon, we went and had an early dinner, and wandered along Gloucester Road, and looked at all the houses and wondered who might live in them. They cost a fortune to rent, or buy (or buy a lease of). They would have to be so rich! Most of them Read More »
We checked out of our hotel in Paris earlyish and made our way to the airport. As we were checking in we ran into a Canadian couple from Invermere who were traveling around Europe on their honeymoon. We started chatting with them and managed to keep talking to them until we arrived in central London. Of Read More »
As you all know, thanksgiving was a little over a week ago and since I could not spend it with my biological family in Texas, Gen and I decided to cross the English Channel and spend Thanksgiving with our southwestern family in London. We have quite a few friends in London this semester because our Read More »
Yvette and I arrived in London at 6:30 AM. We were supposed to meet Yvette’s friends who were going to take us to Notting Hill where the Butler office was located. However, at the arrival terminal we could not find her friends despite waiting 45 minutes and paging them over the intercom. We decided to see what Butler Read More »
Wednesday December 6th 2006: London my journey starts way back on the 6th December 2006… it was a nice sunny day, a typical hot aussie summer day (why did i trade aussie weather for british weather!) but i did, and after being dropped off at the airport by my parents i was off…long plane flight, Read More »
