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October 2011 - London and Barcelona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since I had gone to one end of London to go shopping at a Westfield, I decided to do the same on my last full day in London. This time instead of heading east (a far shorter journey), Jonno and I headed west »
October 2011 - London and Barcelona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today was a very Dad day. I headed out to do two things that were on his list of things to do in London. It just so happened that a brand new Westfield had been built right next to one of the things »
October 2011 - London and Barcelona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh my god. I forgot to write about this yesterday. Brad had told us that we had to check out the Spa on the top floor of the Hotel and somewhere between Choc Chip Pancakes and Chuck I popped upstairs for a look. »
October 2011 - London and Barcelona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don’t know what we were thinking this morning… Why oh why did we both wake up before 5am this morning? To what point was this going to help us get through our day? I packed, had a shower, a snooze and »
October 2011 - London and Barcelona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Queen was so kind to give us an extra hour of sleep this morning (daylight saving ending), it’s a shame I didn’t make good use of it at all. I was up at 5am. Great for blogging, not so great »
October 2011 - London and Barcelona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m glad I checked last night… Houses of Parliament Tour is only run on a Saturday. This morning was a touristy morning, doing all the things (or at least some of them) I never got to do in my first trip to »
October 2011 - London and Barcelona -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you know that Emirates feeds you the same amount of times on a 14 hour flight and a 7 hour flight? Two food runs and a drink run in the middle, and on a seven hour flight that feels a little tight. »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It came around all too quickly, our last whole day in Chicago =( There was still so much to do and the list was starting to become unachievable (in the end it was but we put a good dent in it). We started the »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This morning was an earlier start as we had booked tickets on the 1st architectural river cruise of the day (10am). Mum grabbed a coffee from the real coffee place in the shopping centre in the same building as the Hotel and we »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Swimmers on, respectable clothes on top, swiped hand towel from the room. Oak Street Beach time. Guess how far away the beach is from the Hotel, from Michigan Avenue, from the city? Two blocks, across the road and across the road respectively. I »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe if I start talking about it now I won't feel so stuffed because of it. Deep Dish Pizza of Death. I don't know whether to hug you or to throw you up. You were so good with those »
