On arriving at our hotel: The Tower Hotel, we got settled in an enjoyed the Olympic spirit starting to permeate London (we arrived a week and a half before the Olympics began). Outside our hotel window is an amazing view of the Tower Bridge, adorned with the Olympic...
On another day trip, Josh and I headed out to the town of Lacock, a historical town entirely owned by the National Trust, and afterwards we visited the city of Bath. Lacock We visited the town of Lacock, starting with the Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot Museum. There...
If you're looking for the Queen, you may want to skip out of London and into Windsor. Her Majesty was at home the day Josh and I visited Windsor Castle, we knew because of her flag flying from the top of the castle. Before we went inside we watched the guards pass by...
Josh was so excited when our trip to London coincided with the Farnborough International Airshow. There are several big international airshows: Farnborough, Paris, and Dubai. Josh has wanted to go for a long time. He bought us two tickets for the 'enthusiast day'....
Cambridge is another beautiful college town, similar to Oxford (but don't tell them that, they are bitter rivals). Cambridge was actually founded by some men from Oxford hundreds of years ago that decided to go off and study separately. Josh and I visited King's...
A great day trip from London is traveling to the revered halls of Oxford. I promised my sister that I would visit Oxford, and it was a very enjoyable day. I learned a lot about the differences between Britain's higher education and North America's, and I also found...
Josh and I spent a week in Great Britain on vacation (or as they say there, holiday) before he went to work at the Olympics. We spent our vacation week exploring the countryside away from London, since we would be in London for so long during the Games. Our first day...