http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/ en-us delarac13@hotmail.com Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:52:58 -0800 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017723.shtml Being such an expensive city gives London a bad reputation as a place to visit. Luckily there is plenty to do for free if you can afford the travel card. As most know, 98% of the museums in London are... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017720.shtml Another milestone has been attended to and another has passed. The latter is put on a bit of a hold as we suffer with real life. What am I going on about? Well, Dan and I spent a lovely day... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017711.shtml I've been blocked for a few years. Writer's. Or at least that's my excuse. Sure, I've been scribbling here every other day or so but it isn't the novel I hope to create. Or the epic travel book. Or even... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017705.shtml Five years gone. Five year anniversary of so many things. Of people living, people dying, hearts broken and courage tested. The will to survive so strong. The sound of fear so real. How can one human being do this to... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017685.shtml It's definitely over, summer, although the weather right now is spot on beautiful. Back home this week would have been "Back to School", the week where the malls are plastered with sales and Labor Day, the official end of summer... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017665.shtml I'm watching a programme called Saturday Kitchen on BBC1. It's a live, interactive programme where celebrity and non-celebrity guests are the guinea pigs and the host and his celebrity chef co-host of the day cooks up their favorite dishes. There... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017635.shtml While most people are packing up their belongings and heading toward airports to head back into the country, Dan and I did the smart thing and stayed home. Who wants to spend hours at the airports, anyway? We made the... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017628.shtml A "must see" for any traveller in London during the August bank holiday is the Notting Hill Carnival, what I hope to experience as an amalgam of sound, food and drink that echoes with the Caribbean spirit. I've been told... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017607.shtml I am very serious about my job. It may not be my career, but it is what I am paid to do right now and as I mentioned before, I haven't taken more than one day off at a time... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017582.shtml I woke up this morning around noon. This was not a planned event, the late lie in, as I went to bed last night feeling a bit off at around 11:30pm. A couple of hours later I discovered the reason... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017564.shtml Okay, so I amy not be going anywhere, but I've put in for taking a few days off next week. Although we'ew busy, sometimes we do need to slow down and take time off for ourselves. After all, I've not... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017547.shtml Life is a better place when Strictly Ballroom is on. Baz Luhrmann's first of his so called love trilogy (the second being Romeo and Juliet and the third, the stunning Moulin Rouge)... and of course there's the Coca Cola sign... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017540.shtml I may start singing that Alanis Morrisette song... Dan and I finally bought our first piece of actual luggage: a carry-on sized wheeled thing by Samsonite. We bought it in Amsterdam, half the price it would be here, and it... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017537.shtml It's been my plan to start saving from September for a while now. With the GBP500 ILR (indefinite leave to remain) visa it looks like the amount to be saved in September is a bit less than planned, however I've... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/delara/dodgefiles/017535.shtml We are back up and running. The Boot Boys come to the rescue once more and we're ready to write. Though I am happy and sad to say that there won't be too much travel related writing over the next...