Yesterday, we did one of those rare things in coming into London on our day off to enjoy a bus tour around London with our niece and nephew. A friend of ours is a manager with The Big Bus Company and he gets a few...
Our first full day in Toronto and after grabbing a bit of breakfast at the nearby Tim Hortons we jumped onto one of the City Sightseeing tour buses for an open-top trip around the city. It’s a good way to take in all that Toronto...
Our fourth and final (half) day in Rome and we started by jumping back on a bus up to the Vatican area to visit the Castel Sant’Angelo, originally a mausoleum built by the Roman Emporer Hadrian for him and his family in 139 AD. It’s...
Day 3 of our traipse around Rome and we had more walking to do. On our list of things to do were the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain and Villa Borghese. We ventured onto the Metro to get us to Spagna and from there it was...
6th May 2006 – 19:00 The third and final day of the holidays was another sunny day, with the temparature pushing 27°C. After a brief visit to Shibuya (the highlight of which was a statue of a dog!) I decide upon a bit of cultural...
4th May 2006 – 18:00 The second day of the holidays – again, very sunny – saw me take a trek over to Asakusa where you will find Senso-ji, a 7th Century temple. As I expected, 17 million other people (approx) were also here to...
22nd April 2006 – 16:00 Went out for a wander to see what is in the vicinity so headed down towards the Tokyo Tower which looks like a cross between a television mast and the Eiffel Tower. Didn’t go in/up but now I know where...