London

We arrived in London yesterday around lunchtime after a pleasant 1 hour or so train journey. Our hotel was in Hyde Park, only a stone's throw from Paddington Station. We were pleased to find that it had a lift, TV, bathroom AND full English breakfast thrown in! After checking in and dumping our bags we hopped on the tube for a whirlwind sightseeing tour.

We saw the Houses of Parliament ('Big Ben' which is actually the bell inside not the tower!!), Westminster Abbey, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, London Bridge (really disappointing - we thought it would be something spectacular but it's just an ordinary bridge!), Buckingham Palace and the London Eye. We stopped off at a couple of pubs along the way, at one of them we watched Germany beat Costa Rica. Then it was back to the hotel briefly before heading out to Earl's Court in the hope of finding a good meal and a pub to watch the Poland v Ecuador game. We found a pub, watched the game and then had an Italian meal.

Today we went to Lord's which was obviously a highlight for me (Jane) except for the annoying people who kept walking on the oval even after they were told not to! Right now we are waiting for the bus to Frankfurt but Davey thinks we might not be booked on it in which case we will have to find accommodation for the night and work out how we are going to get from Hahn airport (about 110km from Frankfurt) to Frankfurt airport, then into town and then to our campsite! So fingers crossed for us getting on the bus - will update you when we get to Germany!

Cheers