Old Farm, Moreton-In-Marsh
Posted by ScarlettJun 26th, 2009 | No Comments
When planning the UK segment of our trip, we used Rick Steves’ website to compile a list of places to visit based on his recommended itinerary. Visiting a town in the Cotswolds, a range of hills in west-central England, was fairly high on his priority list, so we decided to spend two nights in Moreton-In-Marsh, the only town in the Cotswolds which has a train station. I’m happy to report that, although it’s small, Moreton-In-Marsh may turn out to be one of my favorite places in England… 
4 Days In Cardiff
Posted by ScarlettJun 24th, 2009 | No Comments
This past Sunday we caught a very crowded train to Cardiff, Wales, where we’ve spent the last 4 nights. Once again, I’m summarizing several days into one blog because our time here hasn’t been that exciting. Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital city and is growing quickly, but when there isn’t a major rugby match happening at Millennium Stadium, there isn’t a whole lot of excitement in the city…
Bath In A Nutshell
Posted by ScarlettJun 20th, 2009 | No Comments
In an effort to catch up on my blog articles, I’m condensing the remaining three of our four days in Bath into one blog entry because, frankly, our time in Bath wasn’t all that interesting! It’s a nice little town and, after our first day of crappy food, we managed to find a few decent places to eat, but two days here would have been enough, and four days was total overkill. Bath might be a good spot to holiday if I lived nearby and needed a relaxing getaway, but as a backpacker, it’s just overpriced without much to see or do…
You Call This Spaghetti?!?!
Posted by ScarlettJun 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Well, it’s been a little while since my blog entries have focused solely on the food we’ve been eating (at the beginning they did more often), but today is a day where all I have to write about is the food really – except this isn’t about how good the food was, it’s about how unbelievably bad it was! I’m starting to see why the UK has a rep for bad food…
The Princess Di Memorial
Posted by ScarlettJun 16th, 2009 | No CommentsToday, our last day in London, we headed out to explore Hyde Park and find the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain. We had asked a couple of police officers about how to find it on our first day in London with Calvin, but it was quite far from Buckingham Palace, where we were, and they told us it wasn’t worth going to, which we thought was an odd thing to say. As we wandered around Hyde Park asking people for directions everyone we talked to said the same thing, and when we finally found the fountain we, unfortunately, couldn’t help but agree…
A Day Of Art & Shakespeare
Posted by ScarlettJun 14th, 2009 | No Comments
With only a few days left in London, we headed out today to cram in a few art galleries before catching the evening production of Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, which we had purchased tickets for online last week when we stopped by the Globe and realized that pretty much all shows sell out in advance. After today, I think we can both say we’ve had enough art and theatre for the next little while…
A Wicked Day In London
Posted by ScarlettJun 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Today was the best possible Saturday I could ask for – we managed to get front row tickets to Wicked, a musical about “the untold story of the wicked witch of the west,” and then we stumbled upon the Queen’s birthday celebration and saw the whole Royal Family at Buckingham Palace! I am so thankful we happened to be at the right place at the right time…
More Sightseeing & BBQ Duck
Posted by ScarlettJun 12th, 2009 | No Comments
As predicted, we ended up stuck in the area by our hotel for one more day yesterday because of the Tube strike. Today, with the Tube strike over, we headed back to city center to see the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum and try some ramen noodles at Wagamama in Covent Garden, another restaurant on About.com’s top 10 cheap eats in London. It wasn’t a crazy exciting day of sightseeing, but it was a nice way to start our last weekend in London, which is going to be pretty busy.
Our First Live Football Match!
Posted by ScarlettJun 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Since we accomplished so much of our sightseeing while Calvin was here, we took a day to rest yesterday and hung around the hotel, sleeping in and doing a bit of shopping in the area. Unfortunately, this morning we found out on the BBC news that a two day Tube strike starts today, meaning we’re stuck in Wembley until Friday, unless we want to brave the masses of crowds who will be relying on the buses! Thankfully we scheduled extra time in London so we’ll just wait until the strike is over to resume our sightseeing…
Westfield London Shopping Center
Posted by ScarlettJun 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Today for Calvin’s last day in London, we decided to spend some time shopping at Westfield London, which isn’t anything exciting to write about, but I wanted to include a small blurb here about the mall because it’s probably the nicest mall I’ve ever been to, in terms of interior design and appearance. I was born and raised in Edmonton, home of West Edmonton Mall, the largest in the world until 2004, so big malls are nothing special to me, but Westfield London, the largest urban mall in Europe, did make me go “Wow!” just a little bit…
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