Siden det er so tungvint å skrive alt på to språk, går jeg over til engelsk og håper det er ok for alle. Barna kommer fortsatt å skrive på norsk og tysk.
Es ist so aufwändig alles auf 2 Sprachen zu schreiben und daher bin ich auf Englisch übergegangen und hoffe, dass das für alle in Ordnung ist. Die Kinder werden weiterhin auf Deutsch und Norwegisch schreiben.
Finally we have said our good buys (- that bit was much harder than expected!) and off we went! We start out in London. I have been here many times but it has been quite a while since I have last been here. I was shocked to read that the London Eye was set up for the millenium and I had never seen it. Has it been that long?!
Since England is so much about traditions, it is still "Good Old England" and a lot is so familiar, like the smell of Angelas house in Baron's Court, where we are staying. She is the lovely landlady we expected and especially Lisa fell in love at once and asked after 5 minutes if we could stay for longer than the 2 days. The love is obviously mutual, since Angela has bought bread and several kinds of glutenfree bisquits for her as soon as she heard that Lisa has celiac disease. Everyone was very happy at berakfast, as you can see!
I do not remember London as quite so busy and overcrowded (and I suppose October is off-season)! Angela backs me up on that one. The tube is always full and we rarely got a seat. We constantly seem to be moving in a mass of people - and everyone seems to be Italian, French or German...
Since the kids had never been to London, we showed them the most obvious tourist attractions: The London Eye ;-), Westminster with Houses of Parliaments and Big Ben, St James Park with all the ducks, geese and squirrels ,the British Natural History Museum, Holland Park (which has an adventure playground and Hamleys (- a huge toy store that I knew about thanks to my students who mentioned it in their talks about London. A great success with the kids, so thank you guys!)
Tomorrow we will have to go back to the British Natural History Museum because we could not get in to the dinosaur exhibition today. We just did not have the stamina to stand in line for an hour and instead found a lovely place in South Kensington called "Muriel's kitchen", where we had lunch.
In the afternoon we will be flying to LA from Heathrow.
Es ist so aufwändig alles auf 2 Sprachen zu schreiben und daher bin ich auf Englisch übergegangen und hoffe, dass das für alle in Ordnung ist. Die Kinder werden weiterhin auf Deutsch und Norwegisch schreiben.
Finally we have said our good buys (- that bit was much harder than expected!) and off we went! We start out in London. I have been here many times but it has been quite a while since I have last been here. I was shocked to read that the London Eye was set up for the millenium and I had never seen it. Has it been that long?!
Since England is so much about traditions, it is still "Good Old England" and a lot is so familiar, like the smell of Angelas house in Baron's Court, where we are staying. She is the lovely landlady we expected and especially Lisa fell in love at once and asked after 5 minutes if we could stay for longer than the 2 days. The love is obviously mutual, since Angela has bought bread and several kinds of glutenfree bisquits for her as soon as she heard that Lisa has celiac disease. Everyone was very happy at berakfast, as you can see!
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| Breakfast at the B&B |
Since the kids had never been to London, we showed them the most obvious tourist attractions: The London Eye ;-), Westminster with Houses of Parliaments and Big Ben, St James Park with all the ducks, geese and squirrels ,the British Natural History Museum, Holland Park (which has an adventure playground and Hamleys (- a huge toy store that I knew about thanks to my students who mentioned it in their talks about London. A great success with the kids, so thank you guys!)
Tomorrow we will have to go back to the British Natural History Museum because we could not get in to the dinosaur exhibition today. We just did not have the stamina to stand in line for an hour and instead found a lovely place in South Kensington called "Muriel's kitchen", where we had lunch.
In the afternoon we will be flying to LA from Heathrow.
Hi to all of you :-D It sounds like you are having a wonderful time in London, despite of its busyness. I´m looking forward to take Isak there one day.
ReplyDeleteWe´re having a wonderful week in Trondheim, weatherwise. The sunrise and sunset are beautiful, and its nice and warm during the day.
Take care. Hugs from Marian