Sorry for the de-lay

Happy festivities to all and to all a good flight ...for those of you who might be stuck longer at airports than you thought you might, trying to get home after the festivities..
due to airline strikes and the like.
I for one am not upset if I have to stay a couple more days in the USA. I will be back in the UK soon enough to frolic.

I am back in London after the 13th of January...but please give a girl some time to catch up on her jet lag,
I promise to stay put for a good...couple of weeks ...at least!

Catch me when you can! x

London Lady at Leisure

As I am planning not travelling as much this year around the world just for fun and no frolics.
I think I should at least explorer London a little more.
Its not like I am far from most of the attractions at all by the London underground (The Tube)
I have said I should do so in the past… and recently spent quite some time in the V& A and the Tate’s, but after all I live here in a great city and tourists see more sights than I make an effort to. I think I need to make a better effort.
Now… I have already been to a few places already on the London Tourist list, like the London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Tate Modern, British Museum, Natural History Museum (many moons ago) the V&A and many more places that are not on the main london tourist list below… but not all.

One of London attractions websites Top 10
1. London eye ( observation Ferris wheel with a great view)
2. Tower of London (Home of the crown jewels),
3. Buckingham Palace (Where our Queen sometimes lives)
4. Trafalgar Square (outside of the National Gallery)
5. Tate Modern (Huge modern art museum)
6. Museum of London (A museum about London ...what else)
7. British Museum (Stuff we borrowed when the British Empire was globetrotting)
8. Natural History Museum (Home of Dino’s and other old things we dug up or made)
9. Houses of parliament (Full of old fossils..sorry that’s the museum above )
10. V&A aka the Victoria and Albert Museum (Full of lots of odd and new stuff)

But I have found another London Site with an extended list of places I think I need to check out, like Amora
The academy of sex (even I didn’t know we had one of those! doesnt say much about who ever was/is doing their marketing and advertiseing! )
...Think I better check it out when I get back to London and report back ..all for the sake of blogging of course..wink.

Hello 08!

Well happy new year to one and all..!
I am going to fly the white flag of travel truce this year for the sake of my sanity and carbon foot print.
I am trying not to make any other new year’s resolutions other than only to have four trips away this new year.(yes that’s 4 return flights smarty pants out there)

*Things I have learned while in the USA over the festivities:
People use the 80’s word ‘Dude’ far too much in the Rockys.
Americans have coffee percolators rather than a electric kettle so ts hard to make a decent pot of tea.
Traffic drives a lot slower than in the Uk even on the highway with bigger roads.
Hummer the cars don’t look so big when in context to USA transport than you would think they would.
With the rate of the economy going downhill rapidly here I am glad I live in the Uk… but shopping over here despite the bad lingerie choice is amazing (Ok I kind of knew that one but even since I was here last its better).
Americans call Prawns… Shrimps!… even if they are actually Prawns and not a Shrimp.
I don’t like living out of a suitcase, moving around for more than three weeks at a time.
And lastly I don’t like boarding, driving or even walking in a white out snow storm.

Lets just hope this year doesn’t go as fast as the last, have a fruitful new year everyone. Eleanor x