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My second full day in London (May 11, 2008)
started off with gorgeous sunshine. Andrea
and I enjoyed a fabulous breakfast at the
Zetter Hotel, a cool boutique type hotel in
LondonÂ’s Clerkenwell area. Then we decided
to make our way to the Liverpool Street
Station to hop onto the No. 11 bus that would
take us past all sorts of important sights to
the historic Victoria Railway Station – a
great, inexpensive way to view some of
LondonÂ’s main attractions. We then walked
toward Buckingham Palace and got caught in
the crowds awaiting the famous Changing of
the Guards Ritual. After the ceremonial
parade had passed by, we strolled beside
beautiful St. JamesÂ’s Park to Trafalgar
Square. From here we made our way past the
Horse Guards and Downing Street (the British
Prime MinisterÂ’s residence) to the Houses of
Parliament where we arrived just minutes
before Big Ben proudly rang out noon. From
the bridge we had a perfect view of the the
Parliament Buildings and the London Eye,
LondonÂ’s famous giant ferris wheel. Shortly
after 1 pm we took a sightseeing boat from
Westminster Pier to Greenwich, and enjoyed
the guideÂ’s humorous narration as he
explained various sights along the riverbanks
of the Thames, including Tower Bridge, one of
LondonÂ’s most recognized landmarks.
Upon our arrival in Greenwich we had to race
to the Docklands Railway to make our way to
Whitechapel where we were going to link up
with a tour called “The Unknown East End of
London”. Harry Jackson, our certified Blue
Badge tour guide filled us in about the
colourful history of this area, traditionally
home to successive waves of immigrant
labourers who, among others, included French
Huguenots, Ashkenazi Jews and more recently,
Bengali immigrants. Jack the Ripper of course
terrorized this area in the late 1800s and
was included in the stories. On Brick Lane we
happened across a street festival and ended
our tour at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
After a short walk we arrived at Liverpool
Street Station and took the tube back to our
hotel ...
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| The Zetter Hotel |
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My second full day in London (May 11, 2008)
started off with gorgeous sunshine. Andrea
and I enjoyed a fabulous breakfast at the
Zetter Hotel, a cool boutique type hotel in
LondonÂ’s Clerkenwell area. Then we decided
to make our way to the Liverpool Street
Station to hop onto the No. 11 bus that would
take us past all sorts of important sights to
the historic Victoria Railway Station – a
great, inexpensive way to view some of
LondonÂ’s main attractions. We then walked
toward Buckingham Palace and got caught in
the crowds awaiting the famous Changing of
the Guards Ritual. After the ceremonial
parade had passed by, we strolled beside
beautiful St. JamesÂ’s Park to Trafalgar
Square. From here we made our way past the
Horse Guards and Downing Street (the British
Prime MinisterÂ’s residence) to the Houses of
Parliament where we arrived just minutes
before Big Ben proudly rang out noon. From
the bridge we had a perfect view of the the
Parliament Buildings and the London Eye,
LondonÂ’s famous giant ferris wheel. Shortly
after 1 pm we took a sightseeing boat from
Westminster Pier to Greenwich, and enjoyed
the guideÂ’s humorous narration as he
explained various sights along the riverbanks
of the Thames, including Tower Bridge, one of
LondonÂ’s most recognized landmarks.
Upon our arrival in Greenwich we had to race
to the Docklands Railway to make our way to
Whitechapel where we were going to link up
with a tour called “The Unknown East End of
London”. Harry Jackson, our certified Blue
Badge tour guide filled us in about the
colourful history of this area, traditionally
home to successive waves of immigrant
labourers who, among others, included French
Huguenots, Ashkenazi Jews and more recently,
Bengali immigrants. Jack the Ripper of course
terrorized this area in the late 1800s and
was included in the stories. On Brick Lane we
happened across a street festival and ended
our tour at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
After a short walk we arrived at Liverpool
Street Station and took the tube back to our
hotel ...
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| The Zetter Hotel |
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My second full day in London (May 11, 2008)
started off with gorgeous sunshine. Andrea
and I enjoyed a fabulous breakfast at the
Zetter Hotel, a cool boutique type hotel in
LondonÂ’s Clerkenwell area. Then we decided
to make our way to the Liverpool Street
Station to hop onto the No. 11 bus that would
take us past all sorts of important sights to
the historic Victoria Railway Station – a
great, inexpensive way to view some of
LondonÂ’s main attractions. We then walked
toward Buckingham Palace and got caught in
the crowds awaiting the famous Changing of
the Guards Ritual. After the ceremonial
parade had passed by, we strolled beside
beautiful St. JamesÂ’s Park to Trafalgar
Square. From here we made our way past the
Horse Guards and Downing Street (the British
Prime MinisterÂ’s residence) to the Houses of
Parliament where we arrived just minutes
before Big Ben proudly rang out noon. From
the bridge we had a perfect view of the the
Parliament Buildings and the London Eye,
LondonÂ’s famous giant ferris wheel. Shortly
after 1 pm we took a sightseeing boat from
Westminster Pier to Greenwich, and enjoyed
the guideÂ’s humorous narration as he
explained various sights along the riverbanks
of the Thames, including Tower Bridge, one of
LondonÂ’s most recognized landmarks.
Upon our arrival in Greenwich we had to race
to the Docklands Railway to make our way to
Whitechapel where we were going to link up
with a tour called “The Unknown East End of
London”. Harry Jackson, our certified Blue
Badge tour guide filled us in about the
colourful history of this area, traditionally
home to successive waves of immigrant
labourers who, among others, included French
Huguenots, Ashkenazi Jews and more recently,
Bengali immigrants. Jack the Ripper of course
terrorized this area in the late 1800s and
was included in the stories. On Brick Lane we
happened across a street festival and ended
our tour at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
After a short walk we arrived at Liverpool
Street Station and took the tube back to our
hotel ...
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| The Zetter Hotel |
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My second full day in London (May 11, 2008)
started off with gorgeous sunshine. Andrea
and I enjoyed a fabulous breakfast at the
Zetter Hotel, a cool boutique type hotel in
LondonÂ’s Clerkenwell area. Then we decided
to make our way to the Liverpool Street
Station to hop onto the No. 11 bus that would
take us past all sorts of important sights to
the historic Victoria Railway Station – a
great, inexpensive way to view some of
LondonÂ’s main attractions. We then walked
toward Buckingham Palace and got caught in
the crowds awaiting the famous Changing of
the Guards Ritual. After the ceremonial
parade had passed by, we strolled beside
beautiful St. JamesÂ’s Park to Trafalgar
Square. From here we made our way past the
Horse Guards and Downing Street (the British
Prime MinisterÂ’s residence) to the Houses of
Parliament where we arrived just minutes
before Big Ben proudly rang out noon. From
the bridge we had a perfect view of the the
Parliament Buildings and the London Eye,
LondonÂ’s famous giant ferris wheel. Shortly
after 1 pm we took a sightseeing boat from
Westminster Pier to Greenwich, and enjoyed
the guideÂ’s humorous narration as he
explained various sights along the riverbanks
of the Thames, including Tower Bridge, one of
LondonÂ’s most recognized landmarks.
Upon our arrival in Greenwich we had to race
to the Docklands Railway to make our way to
Whitechapel where we were going to link up
with a tour called “The Unknown East End of
London”. Harry Jackson, our certified Blue
Badge tour guide filled us in about the
colourful history of this area, traditionally
home to successive waves of immigrant
labourers who, among others, included French
Huguenots, Ashkenazi Jews and more recently,
Bengali immigrants. Jack the Ripper of course
terrorized this area in the late 1800s and
was included in the stories. On Brick Lane we
happened across a street festival and ended
our tour at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
After a short walk we arrived at Liverpool
Street Station and took the tube back to our
hotel ...
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| London 2008 - The Zetter Hotel |
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My second full day in London (May 11, 2008)
started off with gorgeous sunshine. Andrea
and I enjoyed a fabulous breakfast at the
Zetter Hotel, a cool boutique type hotel in
London's Clerkenwell area. Then we decided to
make our way to the Liverpool Street Station
to hop onto the No. 11 bus that would take us
past all sorts of important sights to the
historic Victoria Railway Station -- a great,
inexpensive way to view some of London's main
attractions. We then walked toward Buckingham
Palace and got caught in the crowds awaiting
the famous Changing of the Guards Ritual.
After the ceremonial parade had passed by, we
strolled beside beautiful St. James's Park to
Trafalgar Square. From here we made our way
past the Horse Guards and Downing Street (the
British Prime Minister's residence) to the
Houses of Parliament where we arrived just
minutes before Big Ben proudly rang out noon.
From the bridge we had a perfect view of the
the Parliament Buildings and the London Eye,
London's famous giant ferris wheel. Shortly
after 1 pm we took a sightseeing boat from
Westminster Pier to Greenwich, and enjoyed
the guide's humorous narration as he
explained various sights along the riverbanks
of the Thames, including Tower Bridge, one of
London's most recognized landmarks.
Upon our arrival in Greenwich we had to race
to the Docklands Railway to make our way to
Whitechapel where we were going to link up
with a tour called "The Unknown East End of
London". Harry Jackson, our certified Blue
Badge tour guide filled us in about the
colourful history of this area, traditionally
home to successive waves of immigrant
labourers who, among others, included French
Huguenots, Ashkenazi Jews and more recently,
Bengali immigrants. Jack the Ripper of course
terrorized this area in the late 1800s and
was included in the stories. On Brick Lane we
happened across a street festival and ended
our tour at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
After a short walk we arrived at Liverpool
Street Station and took the tube back to our
hotel (the Zetter) where we got a brief
private tour of some of the unique suites of
this boutique hotel. In the late afternoon we
relocated to a bed and breakfast in the
Holland Park area and after settling in, we
headed out to Snaresbrook to join Andrea's
friends for a tasty Indian takeout dinner.
Another packed day in London!
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| Urban Adventures in London 2008: the Zetter Hotel |
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Finally I succeeded getting to London after
my one day delay in Salzburg. After arriving
late on May 9, 2008, I got a good night's
sleep at the Zetter Hotel, a hip boutique
hotel in the Clerkenwell area. The next day,
after a delicious breakfast, my travel
partner Andrea and I got going early to start
our discoveries. We walked past historic
medieval St. John's Gate and admired the
Victorian era Smithfield Market. From here I
took my first ride on the Tube (London's
famous subway system) to the historic St.
Pancras Railway Station which is now the
terminal for the Eurostar Trains, connecting
London with the Continent. We then walked
over to neighbourhing King's Cross Railway
Station where we checked out Platform 9 3/4
of Harry Potter fame.
Our next destination was the Portobello
Market, an ecclectic mix of fresh vegetables,
fruit, baked goods, enticing aromas from all
sorts of delicious freshly made street food,
funky clothes, furs and antiques. After our
interview with Michael Williams, one of the
organizers of the Notting Hill Carnival (a
Caribbean-style carnival and Europe's biggest
street party) we walked through the serene
streets of Notting Hill and Kensington before
we embarked on a brief tour of Little Beirut,
a heavily middle-Eastern influenced area on
Edgeware Road.
A tube ride later we arrived at Hyde Park
Corner where to my disappointment nobody was
giving any speeches or ranting about
anything. Only two older gentlemen were
sitting on two soap boxes and taking a rest,
maybe exhausted from an earlier discourse.
After a brief stroll through Hyde Park, which
was full on sun worshippers, we tubed it to
London's Financial District where we checked
out various classicist bank and stock
exchange buildings, the stunning Victorian
era Leadenhall Market, the Lloyds Building, a
postmodernist masterpiece by Richard Rogers,
which has all the piping on the outside, and
the Gherkin, the famous cucumber shaped Swiss
Re building. Our walk continued to another
historic train station: the Liverpool Street
Railway Station from where we took a train to
Walthamstow Village to do an interview with
the owner of Eat 17, a restaurant and deli
that serves really cool waffles (among many
other things), where I had a supremely
delicious spinach risotto.
Our final stop for the day was a walk around
Leiceister Square that included London's
Theatre District, Chinatown and hustling and
bustling Piccadilly Square. I simply couldn't
believe how packed the streets of London's
entertainment area were, we could hardly
walk...
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| The Zetter Hotel, London |
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A dynamic conversion from an historic
19th-century warehouse, the Zetter has five
floors set around a spectacular central
atrium. Rooms feature huge factory windows
and exposed brick. The décor is wonderfully
eclectic; 1970's furniture, hand-printed
panels, state-of-the-art showers, and cosy
touches such as hot water bottles and old
Penguin paperbacks. Instead of minibars,
there are vending machines on each floor
dispensing everything from toothpaste to
champagne; just insert your room card and the
charge is put on your account. The top-floor
studios have sundecks with far-reaching views
across the city.
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