Nine-hour layover. Those words can strike dread in any traveler’s heart. Unless that is, that long layover is in London. Then, all of a sudden, those words are full of opportunity. We’re not strangers to the long layover. We used a long layover to tour Munich in a day, and another long layover at the Munich airport (which included a spa visit and a brewery visit). Given the distance between Heathrow and the city of London, we didn’t get to do as much as we did with seven hours in Munich, but we were still able to have a very nice morning wandering around London on a self-guided tour, taking photos, and seeing a couple things we hadn’t seen when we were in London for our honeymoon 14 years ago.
I
very recently learned of a travel blog contest sponsored by Expedia and the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). The contest offers a travel blogger the
opportunity to travel to Australia, Paris, Morocco, London, or Seattle and star
in a short travel film as part of Expedia’s “Find Yours” campaign. It sounded like such an exciting contest, but
I thought I had found out about it too late to put something together worth
considering. I read the entry by Dave and Deb of The Planet D, one of the travel blogs I follow,
and left a comment. When they replied
and said I should enter too, I realized I had to try.
I
would love to travel to any of the locations offered, and have been to all but
Australia. I tried to think of what
riveting idea I could come up with of what I would find in one of the locations,
but my mind kept drifting back to one place, London, where my husband and I
went on our honeymoon and where the rest of my life with my soul mate began.
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