Insider guide to 48 hours in London

So, you have only 48 hours in London and want to see everything?

Well, not everything, obviously, but as much as is humanly possible, whilst not neglecting to sleep, eat, shop, and have a pint in a pub.

The best way to get an initial (and literal) overview of this marvelous city is to take a tour on an open-top bus.  Get your bearings, see all the major sights in one go, and then, the next day of your all-too-brief two-day stay in London, you can go back and visit select places in more detail.

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London: Guide to St Paul’s Cathedral

If St Paul’s Cathedral had feelings, it might be feeling confused, jealous even. The reason: the cathedral was snubbed as the venue for the April 29th wedding-of-the-century between Prince William and Kate Middleton. Westminster Abbey won that honor.

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you know what i hate? the supernatural

Monsters, aliens and the supernatural.  And what pray-tell does this have to do with travel?  Well, if you’re on a cruise-ship and it gets taken down by a kraken or your leisurely trip down the Caribbean causes you disappear over the Bermuda triangle, you’re going to see why this blog is particularly bloody relevant won’t you?!  I don’t know about you, but I’m quite sure that I will eventually be beat up by a Sasquatch or abducted and probed by some little green man just because I decided to take a trip ‘somewhere interesting’.

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