Category Archives: London

We boarded our flight from Heathrow at about 9:10pm, it’s roughly a 6.5 hour flight to Abu Dhabi. I settled into my seat and looked at my onboard screen. It was about 00:30am, in Abu Dhabi and 35C. Deb pointed … Continue reading →

Sad to say, but we woke for the last time (this holiday) in London. Tonight we board the first of three flights to take us home. We had a nice surprise early today, we got a video from Laura of … Continue reading →

We decided to have an “early” walk before breakfast this morning. We got away from the hotel at about 7:45am. The streets were empty, no cars anywhere and very few people out. The streets had barricades around them, we got … Continue reading →

NEWS FLASH: The ability to comment on our blog should be working again. Please give it a try. Just click on “Leave a comment” at the end of our blog. A lazy morning, midday check out, train to Liverpool St … Continue reading →

We’re in the UK, must be time to visit another Palace! We have tickets to Kensington Palace for opening time, 10am. Currently they have an exhibition in the Palace entitled “Crown to Couture – The Fashion Show of the Centuries”. … Continue reading →

A week today we will be halfway home, so today was partly about that. 🙁 We began getting organised for the next week of our trip, we go to Cambridge on Thursday and had arranged to leave one of our … Continue reading →

Today we spent the morning strolling through the north part of Mayfair. We walked through Grosvenor Square and eventually to Mercato Mayfair, what is described as a hip market in Mayfair. It is in a deconsecrated church and now houses … Continue reading →

We didn’t really have too much planned for today. A visit to a local market, watch the cricket on TV and then Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral in the afternoon. Well, as the song goes, “2 out of 3 ain’t … Continue reading →

We left home at about 6:45am to get to Lords cricket ground. The test has been sold out for a while now, and we were lucky to have Reciprocal Membership Cards for the MCC. We arrived at about 7:10am and … Continue reading →

We were out of the flat around 9am and walked up to the Green Park underground to make our way up to Hampstead just north of London. Our train arrived and things went a little, not as planned! I got … Continue reading →