Carrie's Travels

Sorry It's been so long since my last update post. I'm having such a good time its hard to find time to write and reflect. Now...where did I leave off... Greenwich. Now Greenwich is kind of off the beaten path a bit, there are a couple of ways to get there. I chose the river, seeing as London is on the river and so is Greenwich. It takes about an hour to get from The London Eye to Greenwich. I love being on the water. But eventually we came to Greenwich pier. Greenwich is a cute little hamlet, with a gigantic hill. My first order of business was to find lunch. It was Sunday so many restaurants have a Sunday roast on their menu. I love roast beef so I thought hey why not. This is what arrived.... What you see there is a huge slab of roast beef, roasted potatoes, roasted parsnips, Yorkshire pudding, green beans and horseradish sauce. It was delicious, and for the record I love Yorkshire pudding! After lunch I walked over to the fan museum, which is exactly what it sound...

Had some time this afternoon after returning from Canterbury. Thought I'd bring you all on a tour of my hotel room all 89sq feet of it. Getting some feedback that you can't see the video I uploaded. If the video doesn't load, here's the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMs1uL05w7w  Cheerrio!

Monday I had planed to go to Hampton Court Palace in the morning, then Kensington Palace in the afternoon and have afternoon tea in the Orangery at Kensington Palace. I made this decision ages ago when I first read about the Orangery. Apparently it was Princess Diana's favorite place to take tea (the fact that it's less than 100 yds from her house could have been part of that as well) Well....I had a bit of a problem at Hampton Court Palace, something to do with forgetting a camera... Anyway I made it to Kensington Palace at about 3:00 which is right in the middle of tea time. I walk up to the Orangery and there's a sign saying it's closed early for a private event. :( I walk up to the host podium and ask if there's any chance I could have tea. The manager told me they were closed (even though there were more than a dozen people at tables). I made a sad face and walked away after getting an assurance that they would be open tomorrow. Fast forward to Tuesday. I g...

Ahhhhhh England. Here I am in the land of the Queen, and William and Kate, and tea and crumpets. I flew in to London City airport on Thursday. I took a black cab from the airport to my hotel. Those black cabs are spectacular, it's so roomy inside and the driver helped me with my bags both in and out. My hotel room.....I knew it would be small, I've read the reviews, but this is small! The bed is against one wall. The other wall is 3 maybe 4 feet from the other side of the bed. The end of the bed is maybe 2 feet from the wall. The bathroom is so small to properly turn around, you need to step out of it, and the door won't open all the way because it hits the end of the bed...so yeah. After checking in to my ridiculously small hotel room, I decided to take a bus tour around London. After navigating myself via the tube to Piccadilly Circus, I found my way (eventually) to the bus stop. My tour guide was Rosie, she was quite funny and had so many great stories. My favori...

Hello! Sorry I haven't posted in quite a while, I've been busy exploring Europe. So... where did I leave off? Oh yes! I was still in Holland. Sarah and I went to this cute little village called Volendam. It's right on the sea and it's just a cute little tourist village. After some shopping, we stopped at a little cafe for a drink. We had proffertjes, which are little mini pancakes that are puffed a little bit, and then served with butter and powdered sugar, but these are also served with chocolate ice cream and whipped cream, OMG, SO delicious! I'm not normally a pancake person, but these were amazing! After Volendam, we went to Zuider Zee, which is an open air museum. It felt a lot like Iron World back home. It was set-up as a whole village with several different areas including a harbor. But the really cool thing is that in order to get there you have to take a ferry. I liked being on the water. After Zuider Zee we ate dinner at a cute little restaurant, I...

Hallo allemaal! I write to you this morning from Sarah's back yard. It's a bit of an overcast, cool day, which is fine by me! I am SO sunburned it's not even funny! So I made it! I'm in Holland, the Netherlands, Nederland. After a flight where I barely got any sleep, I made it to Holland to an ecstatic Sarah, not that I wasn't ecstatic too... After a bit of car trouble, we made it back to Heemskerk. Sarah's house is great, with the windiest steepest stairs ever! I hang on to anything I can when I go up or down! When we got to Sarah's house her darling Nico was there and his friend Rick. Rick came over for the wedding 2 years ago, so it was nice to see him too. Nico made me a Tortilla Espanola, which I love, then Sarah and I went for a walk around the neighborhood. After a quick trip to the store to pick-up some essential items I needed a nap. Normally I don't like to nap because it makes me not be able to sleep, but I was so tired, I set my timer f...