We visited Camden Market while in London. It has gotten a bit cheesy, with all the touristy trinkets and cheap Chinese products. If you go bring your appetite. The market has a great street vendor scene with all sorts of…
Arcelormittal Orbit
The largest sculpture in the world? Not sure, but it is big, the biggest in London. It was designed and built by Sir Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond. Kapoor and Balmond believe that Orbit represents a radical advance in the…
Hampton Court Palace
We took a short train ride out of the city to see Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace. What a complex. It has everything an aspiring king could want, a Clock Tower Court, massive kitchens, courtyards, dining halls, chocolatier, fountains, hunting…
London Tower and Tower Bridge
We visited the notorious Tower of London. Following our favorite Beefeater George as he shared some of the history of the castle, prison, armory, not sure what to call it. Then went on to the top of Tower Bridge where…
Sam’s Journal 1
Here are the words from Sam’s Journal: We are on the plane and I can’t fall asleep, but there are movies so I watched them until we were there in Iceland. Iceland was bright because of all the clouds and cold. …
London
Getting into London was a smooth flight. But, the luggage took forever. The made get into the apparent that we were suppose to stay in because a closet door blocked the way of the door to open. So we had…
Like a 1000 degrees below 0
It;s the night before and we said our goodbyes. That was emotional bout now we are on the plane. Its mid-night and I can’t fall asleep. So, we are on the plane to Iceland. The trip is alright for now.…
Luggage in London
We arrived in London Friday night at 9:00 PM, as we waited and waited for our luggage like typical Americans we logged onto the internet at the airport to have a look. That’s when I found an e-mail from the…
Instigator
Over a year ago, my family and I all updated our passports for a trip to Newfoundland, Canada and I said to my husband “we need to use these and get lots of stamps on them”. My first passport was…