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    • USA
      Päivä 3

      London Day 3

      7. tammikuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      Die Tower Bridge wurde so gebaut, dass man sie in der Mitte für grössere Schiffe öffnen kann.⛴️
      Es kostet 0£ um die Brücke öffnen zu lassen.

      Heute war das Wetter typisch London🌧️ die Tageskarte in der U-Bahn hat sich auf jeden Fall ausgezahlt🚇 Es ist unvorstellbar wie gross das U-Bahn Netz unter der Stadt ist.Lue lisää

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    • MatkaajaCamino 2023
      2312
      Päivä 12

      Southbank today

      3. toukokuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Trip into Westminster to walk to Southbank

      Today I took the train to Southbank as per Colin's suggestion. Teaming with folk coming in all directions across the bridge from Westminster station, there was a lot to see including the lowlander playing the bagpipes in his full regalia. When I learn how to crop a video I will post. I got him to play his favourite tune and then Highland Cathedral. ( guess who I was thinking about there?)

      The other photos of course are of the Lion, a wonderful statue on top of a window in the old council buildings, the London eye..oh dear no way was I going to get on that monstrosity, Westminster Palace and big ben, which chimed just as I was videoing the piper!! The place seems to become more and more like Blackpool. There was sea world, london dungeon themed experience, and Shrek all next door to each other along with a merry go round, various food carts, restaurants galore along the way.

      It was a slow walk down the southbank pier into the centre a lot of which is closed off and walked down a narrow roadway which used to be the council buildings I believe to see the wee garden below with the crown atop it, and the sentry standing very still.

      I found a wee shop and bought a few wee coronation things and took the photo of the mini inside the shop...bless! Watched the tourist boats going up and down the Thames before walking across the next bridge to Charing Cross station to be on my way home again. A beautiful sunny sunny day, the weather is changing! Woohoo!!

      Today I have also been in touch with our cousin, Jean, after finding out she lives next door to Portsmouth where we just were at the weekend. We have organised to meet when I return from Spain. I am so excited to meet our kith and kin for the first time on Dad's closest family members.      Lue lisää

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    • MatkaajaCamino 2023
      13
      Päivä 135

      Barons keep to lambeth

      3. syyskuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      After all my travels and wanderings, to reach London and my sister and brother in law's home feels like a sanctuary. I have felt the effects of the miles on my physical self, my feet groaning, griping, whining with complaints, longing to sit a while, bide a wee.

      Despite this we are off to the Oasis church at Lambeth today I am certainly going to give thanks for the blessing of physical ability and travel mercies. Away in the tube, or two and a bus, we enjoyed the busi-ness of London Bridge where I was right up close to the houses of parliament and big ben and Westminster as I have never been before. Just the scale of the buildings is awesome.

      We met some lovely people at Megs and Colin's church which believes in inclusion and service within the community doing so much work wherever they see a need. I kept falling asleep during the service but was very aware of my head lolling to the side to embrace the stranger next to me. She didn't seem worried at all, I just hope i didn't snore!      Lue lisää

    • MatkaajaCamino 2023
      Päivä 55

      The Brighton Pier and London

      15. kesäkuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      Today was my last day in Brighton and off I went to walk the length of the pier before walking another km going to see the "Picasso" exhibition. After being sent to the art gallery I was told that the exhibition was on at "The Dome" which was once the stables for the Royal Pavilion and around yet another block. The queue was out the door and being held up as one person was missing from the group.

       I had received a text from sister Meg to say she was in A and E having some serious symptoms. I wanted to leave Brighton by the next train at 12.30, to go and be with her in London and still had to go back to my lodgings for my back pack so, decided to let Picasso wait for another day.

      I arrived in London around 2 pm, then caught the underground to Barons Court. Coming out of the station I noticed my sister and niece just arriving at the gate so called out loudly and eventually Meg heard me and held the gate til I got there. Phew! How providential! My poor sister in a lot of pain from her shoulder and rib cage having had a couple of accidents.

      Meg's, Colin, Hannah enjoyed a Turkish dinner at a small restaurant for the evening.      Lue lisää

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    • MatkaajaWinter in Europe
      Päivä 26

      Sunny London

      10. tammikuuta 2020, Englanti ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C

      Our trip to London took most of the day so we arrived at our hotel in Earls Court at about 5pm. We had noticed an Indian restaurant and decided to have dinner there - it was great!
      Friday morning was fine a sunny so we walked towards Kensington gardens and hired bikes for a quick ride up to Hyde Park and back around. The weather was really lovely and we enjoyed walking along the Serpentine through the park. We made our way through Wellington Arch to Buckingham palace and then down the Mall on our way to Fortnum and Mason’s for some tea. Along the way I bumped into a work colleague and spotted Princess Eugenie!
      We came back to the hotel with some lunch and then I went out again to King’s Rd Chelsea for some shopping and a Trinny London makeup consultation. Guy visited the library at the Royal College of Music. We then met up in Chelsea where we saw a jazz singer performing songs from various musicals which we enjoyed.      Lue lisää

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    • MatkaajaWinter in Europe
      Päivä 29

      Final Footprint

      13. tammikuuta 2020, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

      Our last two days in London were spent doing some quite varied things! Since we have both visited before, we didn’t need to see the obvious sights. Sunday was a slower start to the day with a lunch reservation at Rovi restaurant (one of the Ottolenghi places). It was tucked away on a quiet street in Fitzrovia but was bustling inside. The service was excellent as were the menu options (drinking vinegar a highlight!). Afterwards we walked to the British museum which was not too far away. This place was absolutely huge in terms of both the building and treasures inside. It was truly awe-inspiring to see so many ancient artefacts such as the Rosetta Stone and all the Greek vases I studied in my first year uni art history classes! In the evening we attended the All Souls Langham Place church service. It was a great experience - we found the people very welcoming and the message gave us some challenges for the year ahead. We enjoyed some takeaway Thai for dinner that night.
      Our final day was spent just outside of central London in Richmond. We had a whole day to spend before the flight and wanted to get out and enjoy a country walk. The route took us up Richmond Hill and through Richmond Park, past Ham House and along the Thames back to Richmond. We had a really good pub lunch to spend the last of our pounds.
      There was a bit more time to kill before needing to go to the airport so we stayed on the tube to St Paul’s cathedral but we only went into a smaller chapel as they’re now charging £20 to enter!
      Our journey home has been a good one. All of the trains, planes and automobiles have worked out smoothly and we were very happy with Qatar. We’re now on the train to Penrith with only a short taxi ride back home. We are looking forward to washing our clothes and cooking our own food! Oh and greeting the cats too! It will be nice to spend some quiet days at home before getting back into the routine of work.
      It has been a wonderful trip with many special memories and we are now thinking about ‘next time’!      Lue lisää

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    • Ab auf die Insel 🇬🇧🇮🇪
      Päivä 6–7

      Hoffentlich wird es besser..

      10. helmikuuta, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      Es waren keine einfachen 48 Stunden. Nach dem Abschied von Anna am Flughafen alleine mit den 31kg durch London. Immerhin noch Bier mit englischen Rentnern getrunken, die mir Tipps für Dublin gegeben haben und die Nervosität etwas genommen haben (Bier). Ewig durch den Dschungel der U-Bahnen die auch noch gestreikt haben.
      Die Busfahrt war dann prinzipiell sehr entspannt nur hab ich erstmal kein Auge zu bekommen auf den britischen Stolperstraßen und das brennende Auto am Straßenrand lässt den Puls dann auch nochmal ansteigen.
      Die luxuriöse Fährfahrt habe ich dann mit Schlafen auf dem Sofa verbracht.
      In Dublin erstmal die 2000€ Miete in bar holen, während überall Sonntagfrüh um 6 noch Besoffene rumbrüllen und sich halb schlagen. Ich war nur noch froh in der Wohnung und besonders der schönen Gegend anzukommen.
      Aber kaum ist die Reiseanspannung weg ging es weiter mit Heimweh und den Gedanken was ich hier eigentlich verloren habe; alleine macht es einfach nicht so viel Spaß und die zweite Person gibt bei egal was Sicherheit und immer ein bisschen Humor.
      Abgelenkt durch Anmelden bei Sportvereinen habe ich dann über Bumble Friends noch jmd gefunden, mit dem ich in einem Pub noch ein Rugby Spiel geschaut habe. Etwas abgelenkt hat es, aber die negativen Gedanken lassen einen nicht so einfach los. Da hilft dann nur Telefonieren ein bisschen.
      Ich hoffe ich komm dann später in das Wohnheim von meiner Uni, dass ich da dann wenigstens den Superbowl in einer Gruppe schauen kann.
      Immerhin war das Wetter bombastisch, so konnte ich wenigstens durch die Parks und Gassen spazieren.      Lue lisää

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    • MatkaajaUSA, UK and Norway
      Päivä 12

      Arrived in London

      10. syyskuuta 2019, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Well here we are in London, and it’s Tuesday afternoon. Yesterday was a travel day, but we started out with a slightly more substantial breakfast as we knew we wouldn’t be fed on the plane till late in the afternoon. We had seen a place in the market each day which always had a long queue which we didn’t want to wait in, but they obviously did something good. So on Monday morning it was much quieter so we indulged - it’s called the eggslut!! And they do scrambled eggs, and other eggs and put them in a brioche roll....yum! Will show in photo. Then once we had to check out from the hotel, we hung round a bit in the lobby, but made our way leisurely to the airport as no time to do anything else.

      And it is nice to be early at LAX as the international terminal is always rather chaotic, especially yesterday with flights to Japan cancelled because of typhoons, British airways striking....anyway, we made it through with the very efficient Air New Zealand people and had an excellent flight, even nice food! AND such an easy entry into the UK - just put your passport in a machine and through you go - no forms, no people to question you! That is only for the good countries - people from EU countries, USA, Canada, Oz, NZ etc....but so good for us.

      So we went to the underground station, topped up our Oyster cards and made our way to our hotel near Earls Court station. This time it is an Ibis, but in an old Victorian building and again charming, not the typical rather soulless Ibis!

      We have had a walk, quite a long one, to Knightsbridge as far as Harrods, and then back via the Royal Albert Hall to pick up tickets for tomorrow’s concert. A short relax now and then a fairly early Indian meal, and off to bed, and hope we will slide easily into this time zone, because we remain at this time for the rest of our holiday - or an hour ahead in Norway, but an hour doesn’t count. All good.      Lue lisää

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    • Chris in the UK
      1
      11
      Päivä 33

      The lure of London

      28. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

      I don't have to ask if I'll ever come back to London again because I've already gone to London twice. I'm here now.

      The fabled addictive quality of London is no fable at all. As soon as I got the chance, I came straight back. Stuart and I sat in The Drayton's Arms pub tonight enjoying our beer and feeling absolutely at home.

      But it has been a long hard day getting here. I'm really glad we didn't try to go from Cornwall to London on the day of our flight. We would have been shattered before even getting on the plane.

      We got up at 6.30 and looked at the sun rising over Bristol and Castle Park. Bristol is such a hilly place and so full of terraces and tenements, it had a weird echo of San Francisco about it. We immediately set about packing up our whole existence into our collection of bags, tidy organs in our tidy luggage body. Everything for the next 8 hours was pure logistics and plans. We were stalled by the need to settle a bill for some furniture back home, and stalled again by a fire on the M4, but otherwise it was a continuous run from Bristol to Euston Station.

      We had our first London Black Cab from Euston Station to our hotel, The Prime. This was a really lovely tour experience in many ways, as we both relaxed (He the driver, I the navigator), and looked out the window at Hyde Park, at Royal Albert Hall, at Madame Tussauds.

      The Prime London is a converted Georgian Terrace, very tidy and tight, small and spare, but absolutely canny. The paint job is immaculate, the marble is new, everything feels renovated and trustworthy. The concierge lady is a laugh a minute. ("The password is Welcome To Prime, not Welcome To Crime!" and "Did you find a pharmacy? I think the medicine you need is a bottle of Jack Daniels!") The whole place is disgustingly instagrammable, and I am going to instagram the shit out of it, no doubt.

      We have not discussed what we will do in London. I guess the London Eye is a possibility again. So is the Natural History Museum.

      I am not sure if I need to get a new suitcase so I can fly without anxiety. I'll think about that tomorrow when I'm stronger.      Lue lisää

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    • MatkaajaExploring Europe
      Päivä 8

      Last Day, Market Day

      21. joulukuuta 2019, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      Portobello Road Markets, Notting Hill… what a crazy place! Hustling and bustling with so many people, store holders yelling out there best selection of produce or latest styled hats. We wandered through, bumping shoulders left and right, soon discovering that we needed cash at most vendors. So we found an ATM, which ended up being out of order. All good, we’ll just go inside and get money out. Oh wait, it’s a 10.5% extra bank fee to withdraw cash… No worries we’ll go to that supermarket… oh they don’t do cash out? That’s all good, we’ll try another supermarket… whats that? They don’t do cash out either? ok….oh look, there’s another atm, lets try that… oh that’s out of order as well? Never mind that security guy said that that other supermarket will do cash out… Ok let’s try that. We can get cash out, yes! Oh… it won’t let us use our Australian cards?!! Ok this is getting a bit annoying, let’s keep walking. Oh let me pop my head into this supermarket and check… don’t even bother, it’s tiny! Wait what’s that in the distance?! It’s glowing light on a wall that reads ‘CASH’. Will it work? Will it not? There’s only one way to find out… Yass! It does, finally we have some pounds to purchase our big delicious market pastries with! Woooo!

      Soon the rain set in and we had to bail. We set off for Harrod’s, the super department store of London. Harrod’s was all a it much, packed tot eh rafters with hectic Christmas shoppers. Jo managed to by a few books and we got out of there. We set off on a bus aiming to do a bit of shopping before we left London for the country side tomorrow. We got a few stops away and just weren’t feeling it. Our feet were killing and we were so exhausted. So we hopped right off and got right on the Underground train heading back home. We arrived home to J,J, & H where we all just chilled out for bit before Jo & I headed to grab a drink with the local Carroll. We met Ben and his girlfriend Kate at an amazing underground wine bar for a drink and serious catch-up.We hadn’t seen Ben for several years and had never met Kate so it was so great to catch them. We chatted for a couple of hours and down a delicious bottle of red before we said our goodbyes and headed back to the apartment. It was pack up time and off to bed for an early night before we hit the road tomorrow.

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