Brian's Travel Blog

Welcome to my new Blog! Hopefully this will be able to serve as a diary of my continuing travels around the country (because of work) and my tavels outside of the country (FOR FUN!). Please enjoy and post whatever comments you feel are appropriate!

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Friday, June 15, 2007

This is too funny NOT to pass on...

This is a video from YouTube that I just couldn't resist putting on here... It is soooo funny... Plus, Natalie isn't bad to look at either (just wait for her to show up at the end)... ENJOY!

Monday, June 11, 2007

A Couple of New Links

Hey All... I just wanted to mention a couple of links on the blog (over there to the left). They are the links to Robert's albums. The first one is the one that has always been there, there was just a recent change to the cover, so this is reflecting the new cover. Also, the latest album to hit the dance clubs of the country (its even on XM Satellite Radio), is actually an EP of a song that Tom Jones popularized a while back entitled "Promise Her Anything". It turned out really well, and you can find three different mixes of the same song on the album. Just click on over to the two websites to check them out. Talk to ya all soon!

Look Kids, Big Ben... Parliament...

Or should I say, "You can fly, you can fly, you can fly!" Doesn't this look just like from the movie "Peter Pan"? Anyway, what better place to begin our journey of the UK than in Jolly 'ole London. This shot was taken from atop the newest London attraction known as the London Eye. I'll have a picture later in the blog. For now, just know that as of this month, it is the largest observation wheel in the world, not to be confused with some Ferris Wheels that are larger. It stands about 443 feet high directly on the South Bank of the River Thames and one complete revolution (one "Flight") takes approximately 30 minutes from "Takeoff" to"Landing". Anyway, back to London. So, I arrived in London to begin "supporting" the HUKI (Hilton UK and Ireland) OnQ Deployment Team. For those of you that don't know, OnQ is the Front Office System that I install for Hilton. We have been installing in the US for MANY years now, and as Hilton just recently acquired the international portion of the company back, there has been an initiative to install our system worldwide starting with the HUKI division. My first trip was to a town called Watford which is just outside of London, but I arrived about a week early to enjoy the sights and sounds of London. I stayed at a hotel near Hyde Park called the Shaftesbury Hyde Park. This hotel was very pleasant (although the room was VERY small) and was situated about a block from The Tube (London's Underground mass transit system). This was perfect as I didn't have to walk very far to catch a train. Here is a sign of one of the more "well known" Tube stations... During my time off in London, I saw many of the typical tourist attractions to include the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Baker Street (home of Sherlock Holmes), a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Downing Street (home of the Prime Minister), Buckingham Palace (although I missed the changing of the guards), and as mentioned before, the London Eye (shown below). Oh, yeah, and of course, I couldn't leave London without taking an open-top, double decker bus tour of the city. It was pretty informative (but it was REALLY cold sitting upstairs in February). Well, I guess that's good enough for now. I'll write more tomorrow (its 2:30am here right now). Stay tuned for the next episode... Cheery-O!

Long Time No Post...

Wow... It's been a while, and lots has happened in the past 6 months. Back in February, I started travelling overseas to the UK for work. Its been GREAT! So far I've been to England, Wales, The Republic of Ireland, and currently I am in Scotland. It will be my goal to document my travels (with pictures of course) from all of these places and to attempt to give you a good feel for what I've been through. So, if you're ready, put your seatbacks and tray tables in their full, upright, and locked positions, sit back and get ready for a worldwind tour of the UK and Ireland, It should be a fun trip. Cheers!