Dear London, We need to talk. I like it in the morning when you wake me up with a soft warm kiss, your sweet warm hugs through out the day make me smile. But I just can't stand the way you tease me. Dont love me and then suddenly turn cold on me. I dont like it when you go all grey and gloomy. I never see it coming. Stop going hot and cold on me, I just don't know what to do. You made water run down my face, London, I just wasn't prepared and sometimes you ...

So there a couple of things London does wrong... And right The wrong: Trying to buy a ticket machine in a train station. They have the oyster card, a digitally loaded travel card, and perhaps in an attempt the make everyone use them as it speeds up the process of using public transport, they have very few ticket machines. These said ticket machines dont give change. What. After having just come from Ireland which was abundant with traveller friendly bars and ...

One of the best things about English is its everywhere. One of the worst things about English is its everywhere. This is fantastic for travellers, pretty much anywhere in the world you can use English to communicate. However it is bad for those native speakers that are trying to learn another language. Its too easy to slip into the comfort of speaking English, specially when those around you are so eager to practise their own. This is where Europe has it ri...

The Irish have a couple of quirky habits: They are insistant that you must drink out of the correct cup. That is, if youre drinking a Guiness then you have to have a cup with Guiness written on it. If they dont have it (well, a clean on) they will apologise profusely. When you buy a spirit mixed drink, bourbon and coke, you get the shot in a glass and a mini bottle. Convient if you are sharing, two shots and one bottle, not if youre by yourself. Remember th...

Who said London was gloomy? My first day in London I was greeted by this beautiful blue sky. This sky turned out to be lying to me as the following day it rained and then it tried to kill me with the sun, but nethertheless it was a beautiful welcoming. Hostel: Clink 78 The Clink 78 (not 261) is where the topdeck tour leaves from so with a 7am depature its a fantastic place to stay. It is however made from an old jail, so its kinda creepy in an interesting way....