Well our run of good weather has finally run out, today London is living up to its name cold & overcast. The temperature is 12 degrees in the spring and in Adelaide in autumn it is 15. We had breakfast in the Tozi room in the hotel it was a very nice breakfast, one of a great choice after Venice. We are on the hop on hop off bus as we start our tour. London has old part built by the Romans and the new London. Our first stop is Buckingham Palace where gu...

Today we arrived in London , one of my favourite cities, and has been full of surprises, the first surprise was that the sun is shinning in London, I almost wore my sunglasses. Almost if I had them in my bag I would have, again we must have written on our forehead information as we were walking down the street a French couple asked us for directions(lol) we had no where we were going either. The other surprise was when we went into Hyde Park (no we didn't meet ...

Today we say aurevoir to Paris and get on the Euro star to London. We said goodbye to our fellow traveler's yesterday, we are travelling bey Euro star to London from Paris with another couple from Naracoote and also a Canadian couple from Newfoundland Mr & Mrs Brown. We left Paris Nord @ 10.10 on train number 9019 Coach 2, left on time. We travelled along the French country side to Calais for an hour and twenty minutes before we entered the Euro Star tun...

The itinerary for the day is in the hotel lobby every day, this morning we all went to the Eiffel tower up to the second floor by lift as part of our insight tour, then off by metro to the Lourve. We could see Paris from the 2nd floor of the Eiffel tower. The Eiffel Tower's nickname is the "Iron Lady" this tower was designed by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 World Exposition. The tower is a technical wonder 324 metres high & it weighs 10,000 tonnes. The towe...

We are on our way to Paris today & we have front row seats, we have crossed the region known for their mustard Dijon followed by the Burgundy region known for their beautiful red wines. We are travelling most of the day. France has forests of oak trees which is used for their wine barrels and is also exported even to Australia. Like most of Europe France has been conquered by many different people, France was not united as it is today, it was made up of r...