Pounds!

Ahh... What are these? How come they aren't green and there's an old lady on them. Must be a famous person's grandma... Well just got into our hotel. Kind of small but I'm not planning on being in here too long. So we have free wifi in our hotel which means we can blog and check email but our room doesn't get signal :( Well it's now 2pm London time (6am PST) We took the "tube" from the airport and then hoofed it in 40 degree weather to the hotel. Now time to go find something to eat and see London!

-Ed

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On the plane

Finally on the plane. Woot! And we're off. Next stop London, where it's like 40 degrees! Arg!

-Ed



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Location:World Way,Los Angeles,United States

At the airport

At the airport waiting to board. Poon took out his sim card but brought it with him anyways. Not sure why he took it out. Weird. So now he's borrowing Milos phone when he could just put his back in. Why am I even writing this? I'm going to nap.






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Location:El Manor Ave,Los Angeles,United States

Here we go

3 hours left to go. We're eating at red lobster because poon hasn't eaten here since he was a little kid. I got the fish and chips so I could compare them to real stuff in London. I'm sitting here at the table on my phone typing this so I'm going to stop. I think my food might be coming soon. -Ed

Booked the car rental

We just booked a car rental for Ireland.... For 2 days.

Ed is making us drive across the country of Ireland (Flight and hotel are in Dublin) just to kiss the dam Blarney Stone...

My travel books tell me the Blarney Stone is a tourist trap, and it is rumored that drunk locals will pee on it night... but still this is not deterrent for Ed.

Thats 252 km to kiss a rock that is covered in lipstick and disease.... Literally we go across the country of Ireland twice in one day and keep in mind the day before we go I will be drinking nothing but Guiness and Jameson for approximately 12 straight hours and we are only in Ireland for 2 days!!!!


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After all that driving all you get is the gift of GAB.... we're not kissing it for goodluck it's for fucking GAB. Like Ed needs any more of that.

***(UPDATE) You'd think someone who was afraid of women (Poon) would want to get the "Gift of Gab". In this context, "Gift of Gab" refers to gaining a silver tongue (i.e. Having or exhibiting the power of fluent and persuasive speech; eloquent.) Sure Poon may tell a great story or two but when it comes to women... lets just hope the Blarney Stone works. -Ed***

Definition: source
gab (gb) Slang

To talk idly or incessantly, as about trivial matters.

n. Idle talk; chatter.


It costs us 16 euros for 2 days from www.budget.ie (Ireland's Country specific Budget rental site) strangely if you try to make the reservation from budget.com it costs 3-4 times more.

Picking it up at Dublin airport right when we arrive, then dropping it off at the hotel (free parking)

We will be cruising in a Ford Festiva, Manual so I don't have to drive. It should be fun for Ed and Milo driving on the left side of the road, and on the right side of the car....

List of sights you guys want to go to

Please edit and list the sights you want to go to here:

Sort it by City


LONDON
Buckingham Palace
Tower of London
Big Ben
Parliament
Palace of Westminster
Windsor Castle
Trafalgar Square
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's Cathedral
A pub for fish and chips
Eat Beef Wellington
Borough market (street market)
British Museum
Shakespeare's Globe Theater
Royal Observatory & Greenwich
The British Library
Piccadilly Circus
Tower Bridge
Natural history Museum

DUBLIN
Blarney Stone
Guinness Factory
Town of Kinsale
Cork English Market
The Old Jameson Distillery

Drive through Kilkenny on the way to Blarney Stone

Bars in Dublin:
The Cobbllestone
Oshea's
O'Donoghue's
Mulligans
O'Neills


After we arrive in Dublin and drop off the car the only thing we are allowed to drink from then on is Guinness and Jameson

We've booked

So we booked our flights and hotel yesterday, a risky move since none of us actually had our PTO(Paid Time off) approved before making the reservation, but as of today at least I have my PTO approved.

Our total cost for 3 people for both international flights, intra city flight and hotel was $1,134.17 per a person booked from Europeandestinations.com

Current itinerary has us flying on

Los Angeles to London
February 27th at 5:30pm direct flight to London Heathrow arriving Sunday Feb 28th at 11:50am


London to Dublin
then on March 5th we'll be flying into Dublin, Ireland taking off at 8:50am and arriving at 10am.

Dublin to LAX (via connecting flight)

Returning from Dublin to LAX on March 7th with a connecting flight at London Heathrow

Dublin to London Heathrow (7:50 am arriving at 9:10am)
London Heathrow to LAX (11:25am arriving at 2:55pm)


Our hotel in London is London Town about 2.5 miles from the city center

http://www.londontownhotel.co.uk/

We rented a triple room there.... a 3 star hotel
















In Dublin we will be staying at the Mount Herbert Hotel about 1.2 miles from the city center
It'll have free parking for our rental car.


3 star hotel, booked a triple room





http://www.mountherberthotel.ie/

Poon, Milo and Ed's Super UK trip

Announcing the planning of our second trip (for Ed and Poon), first trip for Milo across the Atlantic....

This will approx one week, tentatively planned for the first week of March only 4 weeks away!!!

Planning for 3 nights in London, and 3 nights in Dublin.


So the title of our blog has been updated to reflect our second Europe trip!