Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Off To London & Paris on Tuesday
@HOME. Well it's been a weekend full of running around gathering last minute items for our trip. I think we have pretty much everything we need and are all packed and ready to go when we fly out of Phoenix at Noon on Tuesday.
First we'll be flying over to London Heathrow via a layover in Los Angeles. Once we arrive in London we'll be taking the tube to the Green Park Station in the Piccadilly Circus area where we'll be staying at the London Sheraton Parklane Hotel. We'll only be in London for one night as we're heading to Paris the next day on the Eurostar train. We'll be going through the chunnel, so that should be an exciting ride. Once in Paris we'll be staying for 4 days at the Paris Hotel Prince de Galles on the Champs Elysees pictured below.
It's one of the Starwood Luxury Collection hotels, so this should be pretty swank for a few days. I almost wish that we had decided to stay for a little longer in Paris, but this will give us a good introduction into Paris and the French. I'm sure it won't be our last trip to Paris. We don't have any plans yet, Justin and I are both pretty much 'do whatever we feel like at the moment' kind of people, so we just see what comes our way.
After our 4 days are up in Paris, it's once again onto the Eurostar train and back to London for another 10 days. We'll be staying back at the London Sheraton Park Lane Hotelpictured below, which I mentioned before is in the Piccadilly Circus area and just off of Green Park and Buckingham Palace.
I'm really excited to be back in London again but this time with Justin. He's never been to Europe yet so it will be really great for me to be there with him. As for me, I've worked in London and Switzerland, and traveled extensively through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, so this will be exciting for me to be back in London again. Our trip will total about 15 days with a day of flight travel on each end. I'm so excited for this trip, it seems like we've been waiting for this for months now and it's finally here.
Anyway, once we're back in London from Paris, I know the hotel has a wireless internet connection, so hopefully I should have some time in the evenings where I can patch in my laptop and try to post some photos and details of the trip.
If any of you want a postcard from London or Paris, shoot me an email with your postal address and I'll be sure to send you one :-) Well, that's it for now. Many thanks to Mark and Andrea for pooch and house sitting. Wish us good travels and a great vacation ... See you in Paris & London! Cheers!
