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An easy day turned difficult

Killing time in London We slept till 0900 today and had a late breakfast at our budget London hotel today.  We have a flight from London Heathrow to Paris Charles de Gaulle at 1500 today, purchased at a very cheap price on British Airways.  That means we have a few hours to kill before heading […]

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Sightseeing in London

We did a bit of sightseeing in London today.  Our first stop was St Paul’s cathedral which we tried to reach on the Circle Line.  Getting on the tube heading in the wrong direction, the journey took forever. Once we got there, we realised that they charge GBP6 pp for entrance.  It’s quite a new […]

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Around the suburbs

We woke at 0300 and with the aid of sleeping medication, we slept till 0800.  That was a total of 13h30!  Stuart Hotel’s continental breakfast was very good and we filled up before heading out. We took the tube to Richmond station where Kim’s parents picked us up, with Kim’s aunt Eileen in the car […]

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Finally, arriving!

I had 1h sleep on this flight, making a total of 3h for the entire journey of about 24h from Auckland to London.  Finally, we landed at Heathrow at 1105 and pulled into Terminal 3, a horrible terminal which involved a very long walk to the tube which would take us to our hotel at […]

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