So the Chunnel isn’t a glass tube?!
“The [Chunnel] project: building a tunnel beneath the “great wet ditch” that Britons chauvinistically refer to as the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche (The Sleeve)”. – Time Magazine […]
Tag Archives: London
Things I Learned in London…
*Talking is NOT allowed on the Tube. (Newspaper shuffling, texting, and staring straight ahead are all acceptable alternatives.) *That I really can’t get enough of that accent. *British men on […]
The Notorious Tower of London
“You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in […]
Little Gaddesden and the Shed People
“We can’t keep a buzz in London, because we’re constantly frozen to sobriety.” – Kenia A 30-minute ride dumps us out to a seemingly abandoned Berkhamsted train platform. We turn […]
The Elusive “Castle Day”
“Focus on the journey, not the destination.” – Greg Anderson Today is supposed to be “Castle Day.” We have over-ambitious goals of hitting both Hampton Court and Windsor Castle. This […]
Covent Garden, bad directions and potential hypothermia.
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford” – Samuel Johnson Despite the exhausting travel day, […]
Hungover & Sleep Deprived with Murphy
“If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. If there is a worse […]
