Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Euro Trip 2009 - Days 2 - 4 London, Southampton, Portishead

Day 2: London

Today we actually got out in the city (London) starting out on the Tube (subway) making our way directly into the downtown area where we started off by going to the Science Museum which turned out to be great for the kids.

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We then headed into Hyde Park which was awesome; huge, well maintained, and with lots to do it was an awesome time.

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From there we took the tube right into the heart of the city, where (when we stepped out of the tube station) we were literally at the base of Big-Ben looking straight up at it!

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We then toured around a bit seeing as much as we could of the main area as we could without getting totally fragged :)

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Day 3: Southampton

Today we packed up and got on toward Southampton, stopping at a castle along the way. This was our first castle and was pretty awesome, we stopped and had a picnic before climbing around all over it (they don't care about that over here!).

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Then we went by Laurens favourite: Jane Austen's house which was pretty cool (albeit girly :)

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We wound up in Southampton where we checked out the 3 parks that adjoined the hotel grounds.

Day 4: Portishead

Today we headed to Portishead (oh yeah!) stopping at Stonehenge along the way. A bunch of stones in a field by the freeway, however it was odly mysterious and wound up being a really cool experience.

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We then made a stop by another castle on the way where it rained and drizzled suitably the whole time: a truly English experience.

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We then wound up in Portishead which is truly the last town on the edge of the water before going in to Wales. We were pointed to an awesome restaurant right on the hill overlooking the water where we could see wales in the distance...very cool.

So that's it for the time being, more posts and pics to come as we have time!

P.S. This pic didn't really fit in anywhere else, but I did want to show off the Full English Breakfast (as done well in Southampton :)

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6 comments:

pop said...

hey dude, thanks for allowing us a vicarious vacation via various video
enjoying the pix and blog. say hi to everyone and tell them i love them pop,pop-pop

Amanda said...

Is that a chocolate cookie on your breakfast plate? If so, I like the way they do breakfast there! If not, I kind of don't want to know what it is...

nothingsocloseasblood said...

Mr.Bill says he loves this breakfast. Just what he needs. please send another email with pictures nana 1

nana 1 said...

sorry just getting the hang of this.

Taylor Family said...

@pop
Sorry they've been so slow in coming, we've got TONS of pics, will be posting more soon.

@amanda
Yeah, that is actually called Black Pudding...probably the closest to scrapple. Cookie?...Not so much

@nana
We'll keep em coming.

Unknown said...

What, no English muffin?