Tag: London

  • Sunday 5 July 2009 Highlights: Ancient Stonehenge, London Walking Tour – Ghost Walk Jon had organised to borrow Jeanne’s car so we could head out to Stonehenge for a day trip. It took about 2-3 hours to get there including our lunch/pit stop. It’s amazing to visit a site that is believed to have been around for…

  • Saturday 4 July 2009 Highlights: The West End Show (Billy Elliot), Royal Pavilion As Jeanne has a new posting starting soon she needs to find new accommodation so we all headed down to Brighton for the day. Jon insisted that I had to visit the Royal Pavilion. After some problems at Victoria station (no machines to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…