The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
Mont Saint-Michel Throughout this trip, I have been surprised by the things we have gone and visited. Many of these new places now top the list of my favorites that I've visited in the world: The glaciers and waterfalls in Iceland, the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, Cantebury Cathedral in England, the...
Heat Wave
We arrived in Paris in the evening on Sunday. Originally we were going to hop on the metro to get over to Montmarte, but the station entrances we looked in weren't selling tickets and I couldn't find a tobacco shop. We ended up getting an Uber across town which ended up being a better choice as the...
London - All the Rest
Alright, today we get fully caught up with what we've been up to! Unfortunately two of the locations we were unable to take pictures in as they are active churches. I will need to Google some pictures (likely better than I could take anyway) so you can get an idea of what we experienced. We had an o...
Palaces, Secret Passages, and Murder
I'm a few days behind in my postings, so it's time to get caught up again before we head to France. We went and saw Kensington Palace. I had read a review where someone was saying the palace was rundown, but everything looked pretty awesome to me... One wing of the building was devoted to the living...
You're a Wizard Harry!
Often, we will end up getting off at a tube station and realize that we had been there before. Such was the case today as we walked through the streets and suddenly realized we had been on this very street when we had come to see Aladdin. Our journey today took us to a bakery in Soho where we attend...
Tower Bridge to Oxford
We started our day bright and early... Or at least that was our original plan until I refused to leave the bed until 10am. Our goal was to arrive at Tower Bridge right when it opened to miss the long lines to get in, however when we strolled up after 11 we were able to go right on up without any wai...
Rocks, Roman Ruins, and... More Rocks!
It was a bit of an early morning today in order to make it to our tour pickup in time. Sleepy-eyed, and slightly staggering we managed to find our tour bus without too much drama. Our first stop: Stonehenge. You catch a good look of the monument as you drive in on the motorway, but it's just a tease...
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn
Wow. That pretty much sums up the Palace of Westminster. It's the iconic building connected to the famous Big Ben Bell which contains the houses of Parliament. The outside hints at what lays inside, but I was blown away actually walking through the halls. The Bell tower is currently being renovated,...
We've been busy...
I've grown sightly lazy in my postings as of late, but we've been having lots of fun in the meantime, so it's time to get caught up! Monday we went on another fantastic pub tour with John. All of his tours consist of going to four historic pubs each with unique features as well as making some stops...
London's Calling
Ok so we've been largely quiet this past week, and it's time to rectify that immediately. Ahhh, back in London. Glasgow was a bit of a self-inflicted bust. I wasn't feeling good so we didn't do very much while we were there. Also, don't discount the accents... The difference going from Edinburgh to...
Quick Update
Not much to report, just checking in to say we're still here and kicking. We've been taking a few lazy days just relaxing at our place here in Glasgow. We've been chatting/drinking with our host and that's really it. Our tour up to loch ness etc fell through so we have had ample opportunity to do ab...
Farewell Edinburgh
We're leaving for Glasgow today, but before we do it's time to get caught up on the last two days activities. Wednesday we went on a bus tour of the Scottish borders and Rosslyn Chapel. Our first stop was in the middle of the woods where our guide told us about William Wallace while leading us to th...
Visiting England from Scotland
We set off on our tour this morning with a very thick haze in the air. We had a bit of driving to get to the our first stop at the Holy Island, and it was unfortunate that we were unable to see for most of the hour and a half drive. The bus driver did his best to make light of the weather saying bec...
Has Anybody Seen JK Rowling?
We arrived in Edinburgh just yesterday after an uneventful train ride. Wellllllll..... Mostly uneventful. There was a person who pulled a thin trolley through each train car selling food and drinks. Amanda excitedly pointed out the Harry Potter connection. Waking from the train station to our AirB...
Master Navigator
Our original plan was to go see Greenich today, however trouble on the tube caused us to revise our plans at the last minute. Instead we decided to go see the Sea Life London Aquarium. By this point we're pretty familiar with some of the main tube lines, so like seasoned pros we deftly made our way...
Throat punched on the subway
Our entire week consists of us waking up late, and then maybe doing something in the afternoon. It's been lovely. We went and saw Deadpool 2 at the cinema yesterday. This was a fancy place where our particular theater had 12 love seats each with their own feet rests as well as our own private bar. T...
Drinking in a 400 year old pub
The only plan for the day was to meet up in the evening for a pub tour, so we decided to go for a walk around the city. The destination? Borough Market. The market is one of the largest and oldest in London dating back to 1014. More explanation is probably worthless without some pictures/videos so.....
The Wonka of Beer
Who starts drinking before noon...? We do! Don't judge us too harshly. As our last day in Ireland we've made our way to Dublin to go on the infamous Guinness Storehouse tour. This is the most visited attraction in Ireland, and being a fan of the stuff myself, you can be sure we weren't going to mi...
Stones, Sunken Ships and Spirits
Green, Green, Green! That's what I think of Blarney Castle. Everywhere you look is beautiful greens. The grass, bushes, and trees. It was lovely. When you get there you cross a small bridge and look up to see a Castle looming over everything in sight. This isn't a tiny little thing like the other c...
Salty Sea Dogs
Today can be summed up with a single word. Wow. We went on a tour of the Aran Islands, as well as a ferry tour of the Cliffs of Moher, finishing up with a walk along the tops of the Cliffs. Instead of writing about each thing I will post my review of the tour that I left on trip advisor: "Some tour...
Prunk in Dublic
What day is it? I don't even know anymore! We arrived it Ireland yesterday. Border protection was super backed up (we barely left the plane before getting stuck in the non-EU line). Took an hour and a half to get through there. You know it's bad when when the EU citizens were commenting on it as the...
Farewell Iceland
We are at the airport having woken up at a stupid time to get here (it's 4:00 am, I've been up since 10pm last night). Now, we say goodbye to Iceland and hello to Ireland. I figure now is as good a chance as any to wrap up Iceland. Random things we learned: - Almost everyone speaks English - You can...
Whale Tail - Whale Tour Time!
Let me just start by saying... I saw a freakin' whale! This was not one of those things on a national geographic special... this was a real life living freakin' whale swimming along all happy like. Ok ok ok, the beginning... We were able to have another lazy start today because our tour wasn't sched...
I'm not the palest person in the pool!
We got up really late today because the only thing we had planned was to go to the blue lagoon. After 2 days of nonstop tours I figured it would be a good idea to unwind a bit. Our entrance time wasn't until 2pm, so it gave us a chance to catch up on our sleep (we have been sleeping a lot since gett...
Glaciers, Black Beaches, and Waterfalls
Aw, I had a nice post all written out covering today's awesome tour, but apparently it never saved... So... Check out the uploaded pictures and videos for a small taste of what we saw (and enjoy Amanda geeking the camera in the videos at every opportunity).
Golden Circle - You want mountains, oh we got mountains
Today we took a bus tour of the Golden circle and it was amazing. It consists of 4 stops each with their own unique feature that even the cold, wind and rain couldn't stop us from enjoying. Rekyavik has a large snow capped mountain that you can see access the water. However just minutes into our dri...
Sleeping on the streets
Well we made it! The flight wasn't terrible... We nearly got upgraded to first class after a woman started crying about her families seating arrangement (or lack thereof), but another couple ended up snagging those seats. I briefly flirted with the idea of sleeping, however even after taking a Tylen...
We're Off Like A Dirty Shirt
We're sitting here at the airport waiting for our flight to Iceland. We got here 3 hours early... And it only took 15 minutes to get through security:( Oh well... It gave us a chance to grab something to eat. We're excited to get to Iceland, and only slightly terrified that we aren't going to be abo...