The Armchair Traveller

A few years ago Robbie Williams released an album called Swing when Your Winning. I had a copy of this album as I love the style of music that featured on the album. One of the songs on the album is called Me and My Shadow. Originally sung by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr [...]

I saw this quote on a large memorial pillar as I was leaving Hyde Park Corner and heading towards Buckingham Palace. There was something about the words that I thought were captivating. They made me stop and think. So I took a photo and have posted these words onto my blog to share with all of you.  [...]

The other day I remembered that a memorial was erected somewhere in Hyde Park not that long ago to commemorate the bonds between New Zealand and the UK and the shared sacrifice during times of war. So I thought I would track it down and have a look at what it was all about. I must [...]

Now that I have a job I have a lot more free time than I thought. My job doesn’t start till the beginning of September and all my friends here are working Monday to Friday so I find myself having to work out how to entertain myself on a daily basis! I tend to spend the mornings on the [...]

Inspired by Marcel’s love of lists on his blog I thought I might attempt a list on my blog! I have been working on this list for a couple of weeks now and have decided to post it now. It is a list of things that I have found ‘random’ about London so far, as [...]

Not long ago I was walking through central London with a few friends and I had to do a double take as we walked past this very boring looking brick building, was I seeing things or did that wall have a huge painting by a famous French Neoclassical painter, gold frame and all? Well no [...]