Lon and Don

I know that I already posted about London, but now is time to post at least a couple of pictures. London was a whirlwind as I explained, and I would love to go back and walk through Chelsea and walk through some of the other neighborhoods. It was interesting to see places that I hadn't seen in 10 years and actually be able to recognize places we had been and things we had seen. This time, we did NOT do the Hard Rock Cafe Tour like we did 10 years ago (oh High School..ha). We just passed it by and realized how un-cool that tour probably was.

This time, the beer was better, the weather was lovely, and we had a great time with everyone. So now to pictures. Enjoy!!

I have always loved bridges, the Tower Bridge was pretty amazing. Next time I plan to climb up and walk across the top.

Big Ben. I don't remember this from 10 years ago, so it was nice to see in person. It was insanely ornate.

Parliament was right across from our hotel essentially. I picked a pretty great place to stay (not to toot my own horn) and it was very centrally located.

So for a recap. Please stay at the Park Plaza... be it the Riverbank, or the other 3 versions of the Park Plaza that we saw along the way. It was a pretty great hotel and such a great location. I believe we got our stay at 99 pounds per night, which seemed like a pretty great deal compared to what ever else we were seeing.

Next stop for sure on this blog adventure is Paris, I promise!

So - it's hard to blog in Europe... But London is lovely this time of year

Europe is fantastic - the internet connectivity with our laptop is impossible.  Not sure what the problem is, but for some reason it appears that only our ipad is working, and the computers are not.  I'm guessing there is just something new in the tech world that our computer doesn't have..  Next time we'll just have to get something new!

The good stuff though - the trip.  It is pretty wonderful so far, and exhausting.

We landed in Dublin yesterday after a 7hr annd 45min plane trip..... with a screaming baby and screaming toddler for about 5 to 6 hrs of that time.  They were from the same family so the best part is that at certain points they apparently felt the urge to compete for mommy or daddy's attention which meant screaming OVER the other.  i was almost wishing for the sleeping pill that Martha and Katie took, until I saw how drugged up Katie was...and while entertaining for us - probably not a good way for me (pseudo-narcoleptic) to start the trip. 

London is a city that you can't do justice to in only 1.5 days.  There is so much to see close-up that we only saw from the rooftop of our hop-on hop-off tour bus.  We drove by all the famous attractions, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, St. Paul's Cathedral... but we only really spent time at the Tower of London this morning before we hopped in a taxi for the train station. I seem to remember the Crown Jewels being much more exciting, and there being a lot more of them.  The rest of our trip consisted of eating, drinking English Style Bitter beer, and recovering from our hellish plane ride.

All in all we lucked out in London.  It only rained for about 10 minutes, the weather was warm enough to barely need coats, and we missed a lot of the tourists that come in the summer.  I would love to come back and spend a longer time and walk around the city a little bit more.  

Next up - Paris and my love for the Eiffel Tower and anything from Europe that involves dairy.  (and hopefully pictures if I can figure that out)