The best thing about having a friend training to be a blue badge tour guide is getting tours for free!! However everyone can check out of the British Museum for free, even if you don’t have your own tour guide! We caught up with Alex on one of her Sunday training runs, meeting in the…
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5 Things To Do in Nairobi
What do you do if you have a day in Nairobi e.g. waiting for your Intrepid safari tour to start…. Here’s a few things that I did or were suggested to me: 1) Giraffe Centre I easily arranged a car from my hotel (The Kivi Millimani Hotel) to go visit the giraffes. The cost for…
LCW Hub @ Seven Dials
On Thursday I popped into the London Cocktail Week Seven Dials hub on Earlham Street to get the most out of my free wristband. I signed up for the Zacapa Rum multi sensory experience – a 45 minute tasting experience – I had seen loads of happy customers coming out of this saying how good…
Cocktail crawls with #LCW14
Forget Friday – every night is the cocktail night this week! Earlham street decorated for LCW! This week, 6-12 October 2014, is London Cocktail Week and seeing as I don’t have a job yet I volunteered to help them out from the goodness of my heart – oh and in exchange for a free wrist…
Roman Baths: Touristing in Bath!
I was back in Bath last week (unsurprisingly given most my family is here these days!) This time mum decided we should do some touristing – interesting fact, but if you are a Bathonian then you get free entrance to a lot of the tourist attractions with a special card proving that you are a local. That…
Climbing Big Ben!
Tuesday I was lucky enough to go on a tour of Elizabeth Tower (which houses Big Ben the bell!) and the House of Commons. As a Londoner I’ve never been in either, so this was a fantastic opportunity – all thanks to my flatmate’s friend Rob who is a councillor in his local area and…
Cultural weekend in London
This weekend I had my first couch surfer. Couchsurfing is where you stay with someone – often sleeping on their couch, sometimes they have a spare bed/room. I did this to mixed reviews in the US (what can I say – just be careful if you’re travelling as a single woman..) and wanted to host…
Caning Camden in a few hours
I finally got to meet Margarita on Sunday afternoon – she is a friend of a friend – we both met Aaron whilst couchsurfing at his in Vegas. As Margarita is now living in London Aaron put us in contact so I could at least show her around my neighbourhood and that’s what we did…
National Gallery training time!
My friend Alex is currently in training for her Blue badge guide exams, which basically means that her friends get a lot of tours around London for free. This Saturday I dragged my hungover self to the National Gallery to meet with Alex and some of her other friends. In around an hour and a…