So… we finally left Christmas in Rome to fly to New Year’s in London. We stayed at the Jurys Inn in Croydon, just south of London proper, so we didn’t have to pay the London prices for everything. The hotel was wonderful and just a 20 minute train ride north to London and 20 minutes…
Just a short note to let you all know that we arrived safely in the London area. It’s pretty cold here (literally freezing), but we are settled into our cozy hotel in Croydon, fifteen minutes by rail from Victoria Station in London. Our hotel is called the Jurys Inn, a name that still makes me…
It has been able to keep many of its oldest buildings and has not been over modernized. We traveled there today by train since we had been told that it was a “Miss Marple” kind of town. You’ll see by the photographs that it isn’t so much Miss Marple as perhaps what the various villages…
Oh, my goodness! It was wonderful. Our train was at least an hour late getting started on Friday because of a horrible accident that we were told happened earlier that morning. We were beginning to worry because of all the bobbies who were gathered around the platform. When I asked if there had been another…
There is a lot to see here. This morning, we completed our phone SIM card research and decided to wait until we get to Spain to get our new SIM cards. Vodaphone was recommended to us as one of the best services to use. We compared them with Tmobile EE UK and found that 1)…
Yesterday after we landed in London Gatwick Airport was a rather hazy blur, but I do remember arriving on the doorstep of our AirBnb about 4 hours early for checkin (because we were dopey and didn’t remember we check in at 3pm). Our host was kind and let us leave our luggage while he finished…
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