Category: Travel
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Friday 3 July 2009 Highlights: Lords – The Home of Cricket After listening to my team Essendon lose badly on the ABC via the internet I headed off to the world famous Lord’s Cricket Ground for a tour. As there was a match on (Middlesex vs Surrey) we didn’t have access to the pavilion or…
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Thursday 2 July 2009 Highlights: Buckingham Palace, Duke of York Column Today has a crazy busy day in the heat of London (I’m not joking about the heat, air conditioning doesn’t exist here!). I started the day at the British Museum, I mostly skipped the Egyptian section since I had been there recently but the…
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Wednesday 1 July 2009 Highlights: Imperial War Museum Today has supposed to be an easy day, starting with me just posting the rest of my Egypt photos online and booking the Perth leg accommodation. However in the afternoon I visited the Imperial War Museum. The ground level is in its own way very fun, old…
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Tuesday 30 June 2009 Highlights: Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Jack the Ripper London Walk Today I had an enjoyable trip up the Thames in a cruise boat, starting at Tower Hill we went right under the London Tower Bridge, past the HMS Belfast and past a pub made out of the Mayflower (the famous…
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Monday 29 June 2009 Highlights: London Walking Tours – “London’s Secret Village” and “Gaslight Tour” Today was my London Walks day. First I started with “London’s Secret Village” which is a visit around an area called Clerkenwell the highlight being visiting the place that William Wallace was killed. However the Bartholomew Church (the oldest one)…
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Sunday 28 June 2009 Highlights: Trafalgar Square, National Gallery The plan was to go to an outlining suburb or village so I decided to head out to Hampstead for the Old Hampstead Walk which was scheduled at 10 am however I failed to get there in time 😦 This was not a great start so after a…
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Saturday 27 June 2009 Highlights: Tate Modern, Millennium Bridge, The Thames, Singstar on the PS3 Today I visited Tate Modern, an art gallery displaying modern art, which at times can get very weird. The surrealists in particular seem to know nothing but naked women bodies, or at least pieces of them very distorted. Tate Modern is an old power…
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Friday 26 June 2009 Highlights: Charles Dickens London Tour Today I set off to the Borough Market, recommended by Jeanne I took the bus (no. 133) instead of the Tube and did manage to find it (went one stop too far however). The Borough Market is an organic and fresh food market which I’m sure…
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Thursday 25 June 2009 Highlights: The Wimbledon Tennis Championship Today was the big day. I have wanted to go to Wimbledon since I was 12. Today was a chance to correct that but without a ticket it was always going to be interesting. So I got up at 7 am and headed out via the…
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Wednesday 24 June 2009 Highlights: Walking Tour “Legal Inns of Courts”, St Pauls Cathedral, 20/20 Cricket Match at The Oval (Surrey Vs Kent) My first full day in London and I have to say I was feeling great. The air mattress provided a good night’s sleep. After all the workers left for the morning I…
