Any trip or festival outside of the country.
This weekend, I headed up to Toronto, Ontario to visit friends… …and help Canada celebrate her 150th birthday. To better explore the city, we took advantage of Doors Open Toronto… …where 150 sites around Toronto (City Hall)… …were open to the public (Design Exchange – the original stock exchange trading … Read more
It was time to come home… …and St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church was bidding me a proper farewell. As I may have mentioned at the beginning of the trip, I was able to use miles for a discounted Business First ticket to London… …and a discounted World First ticket back. So when … Read more
After one final salmon sandwich with egg at the Reykjavik airport (God bless you, Iceland!)… …I took a flight back to London… …where I had just enough time to check into my room at the Amba Hotel Charring Cross… (…and grab a snack from the free minibar…) …before running off … Read more
I simply couldn’t pass up another breakfast of eggs, salmon and salmon roe. I could eat it up every day! After I got got ready, I went about town… …taking note of painted birds… …marshmallows in window displays… …vampires… …the entrances of phallus museums (Phallological Museum)… …gate posts for single … Read more
I started my day by making myself some eggs with lox and salmon roe. It was perfect…as would be the rest of my day! I had some coffee, took a shower and was about to go outside for my 8:30 pickup for the Golden Circle Tour, when I got a … Read more
I woke up early with some coffee and this tikka masala chicken roll purchased from the night before. By 8:30, I was outside and waiting for a bus to pick me up, only to take me to the bus station, where I exchanged my voucher for two tickets and got … Read more
I had a 1 pm flight, so I wasn’t in a complete rush. I still checked out of the hotel by 10 or so, walked to the Holborn station and took the Piccadilly line into Heathrow Airport with only one minor snafu along the way. Check-in, security and all that … Read more
Although I finally did get back to sleep around 3:30 that night, my alarm was set for 6:30 because I had to be at Victoria Couch Station by 8 AM for my Premium Tours bus trip to Stonehenge and Bath. If worse came to worse, I could sleep on the … Read more
I woke up Sunday morning after a good, long sleep. I showered, brushed my teeth with a complimentary toothbrush found in a United travel kit, and was about to go to a store for some deodorant… …when I learned that my bag had come in during the night! Hooray! Clean … Read more