We spent four glorious days in London, England. We were fortunate enough to have a place to stay (with my friend Samantha) in East Croydon - a 1/2 hour or so from London. Sam was great she took us around to see the sights and even drove us out of London to go and see Stonehenge and the coast of England.
London is a beautiful city and true to its reputation - extremley expensive for the budget traveler (or any traveler for that matter!). The architecture is incredible and and it is really green with lots of parks intertwined throughout the city.
We spent most of our time , walking around, taking pics and sampling local beers. The 5-7 in London is nuts - every pub is bursting with 9-5ers- the British hold true to their reputation as avid drinkers! We visited Camden market - wow what a place! If I had money to spend I would have been broke. The best part of the market is the FOOD ! They serve food from all over the world.
Probably our funniest experience so far involved trying to have breakfast in East Croydon. A lot of the pubs advertise that they serve British breakfast (eggs, bacon, saussage and beans). We walked into this one pub at about 10 am for breaky. I went over the barman and ordered 2 breakfasts with coffee - The guy behind the bar stared at me for a minute and then said - "Coffee? We don't serve coffee!" and I said "Okay, can we have orange juice?" And he just looked at me with disdain and said in his heavy British accent."humph, well it's NOT THE BRITISH WAY!" Apparently, the British way is to have two pints of beer with your breakfast!
JM and I pride ourselves on being pretty relaxed travelers' -But like most people we aim to show up at the airport 2 hours ahead of time. On the day of our departure, Sam had made a delicious dinner of Jerk chicken and rice and peas. According to JM our flight was leaving at 7:50pm. At 5:15 we left SAm's place - which is quite late because it takes at least 45 min to get to the airport from there. We were driving along and close to the airport when I decided to look at the ticket to see what gate we should be heading to.
As it turns out, our flight was leaving at 7:15 not 7:50pm! At this point we were quite worried but trying to stay calm. Sam speeds the rest of the way the airport - with the plan that I will jump out of the car, run to the desk and start begging (the gate usually closes 45 mins before the flight leaves..6:30pm) - while JM follows with our luggage.
I cannot tell you how close we came to missing that flight - We were the last people on the plane and luckily our luggage made it on as well!! 8 hours later we landed in Nairobi!
London is a beautiful city and true to its reputation - extremley expensive for the budget traveler (or any traveler for that matter!). The architecture is incredible and and it is really green with lots of parks intertwined throughout the city.
We spent most of our time , walking around, taking pics and sampling local beers. The 5-7 in London is nuts - every pub is bursting with 9-5ers- the British hold true to their reputation as avid drinkers! We visited Camden market - wow what a place! If I had money to spend I would have been broke. The best part of the market is the FOOD ! They serve food from all over the world.
Probably our funniest experience so far involved trying to have breakfast in East Croydon. A lot of the pubs advertise that they serve British breakfast (eggs, bacon, saussage and beans). We walked into this one pub at about 10 am for breaky. I went over the barman and ordered 2 breakfasts with coffee - The guy behind the bar stared at me for a minute and then said - "Coffee? We don't serve coffee!" and I said "Okay, can we have orange juice?" And he just looked at me with disdain and said in his heavy British accent."humph, well it's NOT THE BRITISH WAY!" Apparently, the British way is to have two pints of beer with your breakfast!
JM and I pride ourselves on being pretty relaxed travelers' -But like most people we aim to show up at the airport 2 hours ahead of time. On the day of our departure, Sam had made a delicious dinner of Jerk chicken and rice and peas. According to JM our flight was leaving at 7:50pm. At 5:15 we left SAm's place - which is quite late because it takes at least 45 min to get to the airport from there. We were driving along and close to the airport when I decided to look at the ticket to see what gate we should be heading to.
As it turns out, our flight was leaving at 7:15 not 7:50pm! At this point we were quite worried but trying to stay calm. Sam speeds the rest of the way the airport - with the plan that I will jump out of the car, run to the desk and start begging (the gate usually closes 45 mins before the flight leaves..6:30pm) - while JM follows with our luggage.
I cannot tell you how close we came to missing that flight - We were the last people on the plane and luckily our luggage made it on as well!! 8 hours later we landed in Nairobi!
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