I have temporarily moved into a friend’s apartment for couple of weeks till I find a place of my own. The apartment is in East Croydon and its almost an hour’s travel from my office.

Today evening we left office at around 6:30 pm and being the peak hours the trains were jam packed.

While staring at the insides of the train, obviously because I had nothing else to do, I noticed this brilliant advertisement for the Spelling Bee competition to be held in England.

Here it goes:

If GH can stand for P in Hiccough
If OUGH can stand for O in Dough
If PHTH can stand for T in Phthesis
If EIGH can stand for A in Neighbour
If TTE can stand for T in Gazette
If EAU can stand for O in Plateau

Then the way you spell POTATO is GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU
Isn’t it?

Cheers,
Rosh

CityStay is a comfortable, reasonably priced, small hotel located right next to Bow Church DLR station in London. 

The address is 94, Bow Road, E33AA.

I have been staying with them for a week now. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay here. The staff is very friendly and accommodating. I thought of adding a review for them on booking.com but alas, i do not have the booking pin with me. So I thought my blog had to have a mention of this lovely place and it wonderful hosts.

The pros:

• The room is small yet tidy. Definitely value for money.
• It has a good room heating that can be controlled via a thermostat. Each room has a tower fan too.
• Each room has a LCD TV with Freeview and a DVD player of it’s own.
• Wi-Fi is available for free for all the guests. 
• You have access to a full fledged kitchen. An additional cost of 3 GBP is charged for the usage of the kitchen stove for the entire day. Other utilities can be used for free.
• Kitchen is stocked with fruits, eggs, milk, cheese slices, fruit juice, bread, crackers, cookies, cereals, cupcakes etc. which may be used without incurring any additional charges.
• The lounge boasts of a huge LCD TV with a SKY connection.
• Friendly staff. They are quite capable to keep you engaged in an entertaining conversation.
• Bow Church DLR station is right next to the hotel. Bow Road Underground station is 5-8 minutes’ walk from the hotel. Bus stop is also adjacent to the hotel.

The cons:

• No tea/coffee maker in the rooms.
• Hotel is located directly opposite to a Police station. Loud police sirens are common during odd hours.
• No proper breakfast is served. But, on request the staff is capable to ruffle up scrambled eggs/ omlette on toast.
• No Sky TV in the room. I know I am being quite demanding now;)

Hope this helps you to decide if CityStay is the right place for you when you visit London.

Cheers,
Rosh