The End of Our London Story...
Kensington Park, one of my favorite parks in London. Maybe one of my favorite parts of the trip so far. We took a long walk down beautiful embasy row and into Kensington Park. We saw the palace...pretty. It's where Diana used to live. We visited Princess Diana's memorial a beautiful flowing stream in a circular pattern. We walked all the way through Kensington gardens, seeing Royal Albert Hall, the Prince Albert memorial, and into Hyde Park. We took the tube to see St. Paul's catherdral and walk across the melenium bridge to Shakespear's Globe theatre and we grabed lunch and became groundlings, standing in the yard for A Midsommer's Night's Dream. I think Shakespear may have been on heroin or something when he wrote that play. Not my favorite!!! We made our way back across the Mellenium bridge to the tube & quickly went to pick up our bags at the hotel, jump on the train to switch to the Gatwick Express at the Victoria station. We haulded our heavy bags around and made it on the train with blessed luggage racks. 30 min. later we got to Gatwick in the middle of nowhere. Why on earth do they call it London, Gatwick??? Stupid! I'm sorry, it makes me irritated! :{ Got all checked into our EasyJet flight to Berlin and then procceded to wait and wait and wait to get our departing gate. We ate dinner while we waited. Oreo Milkshakes. Don't judge me...we've walked like a thousand miles!!! We thought we deserved it! Gatwick airport (run by British Air) is the most inefficent airport I've ever been to! It took over 1.5 hrs. to get our gate listed. Our plane was late in landing and when our gate did get listed it was listed as "boarding now" for about 60 seconds before being listed as "boarding closed". We had to practically jog to make it to gate 111 from the main terminal. LAME! Two thumbs WAY DOWN for me! Then we proceeded to sit on the Tarmac for over 30 min. before takeoff. All the time poor John & Kristen were waiting for us in Berlin! So sad. Well, we eventually made it and then the Berlin airport only sent one bus to shuttle the entire flight to the airport. We just had to laugh at the funny things that happen when you travel. After customs there were sweet John & Kristen with hugs & love for us even though we were so late. God bless 'em! They navigated the train system for us so all we had to do was get off & on the train when told. Today we saw a million sights but seeing as it is almost midnight I'll tell you all about it in my blog tomorrow! I added new pictures to the London album & added a Berlin album. Check 'em out! Talk to you more tomorrow! Thanks for all the fun comments! Keep it up!
Kensington Park, one of my favorite parks in London. Maybe one of my favorite parts of the trip so far. We took a long walk down beautiful embasy row and into Kensington Park. We saw the palace...pretty. It's where Diana used to live. We visited Princess Diana's memorial a beautiful flowing stream in a circular pattern. We walked all the way through Kensington gardens, seeing Royal Albert Hall, the Prince Albert memorial, and into Hyde Park. We took the tube to see St. Paul's catherdral and walk across the melenium bridge to Shakespear's Globe theatre and we grabed lunch and became groundlings, standing in the yard for A Midsommer's Night's Dream. I think Shakespear may have been on heroin or something when he wrote that play. Not my favorite!!! We made our way back across the Mellenium bridge to the tube & quickly went to pick up our bags at the hotel, jump on the train to switch to the Gatwick Express at the Victoria station. We haulded our heavy bags around and made it on the train with blessed luggage racks. 30 min. later we got to Gatwick in the middle of nowhere. Why on earth do they call it London, Gatwick??? Stupid! I'm sorry, it makes me irritated! :{ Got all checked into our EasyJet flight to Berlin and then procceded to wait and wait and wait to get our departing gate. We ate dinner while we waited. Oreo Milkshakes. Don't judge me...we've walked like a thousand miles!!! We thought we deserved it! Gatwick airport (run by British Air) is the most inefficent airport I've ever been to! It took over 1.5 hrs. to get our gate listed. Our plane was late in landing and when our gate did get listed it was listed as "boarding now" for about 60 seconds before being listed as "boarding closed". We had to practically jog to make it to gate 111 from the main terminal. LAME! Two thumbs WAY DOWN for me! Then we proceeded to sit on the Tarmac for over 30 min. before takeoff. All the time poor John & Kristen were waiting for us in Berlin! So sad. Well, we eventually made it and then the Berlin airport only sent one bus to shuttle the entire flight to the airport. We just had to laugh at the funny things that happen when you travel. After customs there were sweet John & Kristen with hugs & love for us even though we were so late. God bless 'em! They navigated the train system for us so all we had to do was get off & on the train when told. Today we saw a million sights but seeing as it is almost midnight I'll tell you all about it in my blog tomorrow! I added new pictures to the London album & added a Berlin album. Check 'em out! Talk to you more tomorrow! Thanks for all the fun comments! Keep it up!
1 comment:
oh, yes victory station, many times i took that to salford,,,all my english people are up there, did you eat your fish and chips in a newspaper, have you seen any youth hostels yet, they used to be only a dollar a night and you got breakfast
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