At some point during the last two years London Tower was invaded by steel wool animals. Baboons, polar bears, lions and an elephant have all appeared at various spots throughout the Tower grounds. The Monkeys are Taking Over Apparently, the Tower was used as a menagerie/holding cell/terrible place to live-and-die for all sorts of exotic […]
The Legend of The Eagle…According to Cid
Some guy named Cid. What a great way to start a story. Since I’m all about correct time keeping on this blog, I thought I’d jump right into the middle of my most recent trip to London with my family. One of the very few places that was on my Dad’s “must-do” list was to […]
“Creativity!” The First Thing to Go After an 8 Hour Flight
Just sayin’… So when I said that I *may* not be able to maintain my former pace of blogging, I was severely overestimating. My statement should have been I will not be maintaining my former pace of blogging…and it may take several days if not weeks for me to get my act together and blog about […]
"You’ve come to the right place"
Let’s catch everyone up to where we are now: Roma. Our last day in London (Friday) Adam was working so I spent the day shopping, reading, and people watching. It was quite enjoyable. To make our impending departure from Gatwick to Rome easier (not waking up at 3 AM) we actually spent the night at […]
London Bridge is falling down?
Determined to get an earlier start to our Wednesday adventures, we set our alarms (Gasp!) and had a goal of leaving the hotel by the crack of 10 am – we were successful, however, with some unscheduled tube delays we still ended up not starting our first sight (The Tower of London) until 11:30. The […]
"When you're tired of London, you're tired of life." – Dr. Johnson
Tuesday ended up being a very busy day for us here in London-town. We got a fairly late start to the day (oh well, we needed the sleep!) making it to Westminster Abbey by around noon. We took the tube to our stop, got out and bustled along with other crowds and finally got out […]
Look Right, Look Left
It just seems wrong! Our first “lessons of London” (LoL for short) was to follow the rules as indicated on the street to avoid being whacked and ruining your holiday. The second LoL was walk to the left – this realisation (please note the english use of “s” in place of a “z”) came after […]
Thank you Volcano Eyjafjallajokull…
Well, slight change of plans folks. Due to expected flight cancellations tomorrow night caused by the volcanic ash spewing out of aforementioned volcano we are leaving for London tonight! Unfortunately this means that we had to severely cut our visit with Dustin and Elisha in D.C. – a grand total of 9 hours were spent […]