Easter Plans
Nick is at basket ball tonight so i thought this would be a good time to post what's been happening in London and the plans for Easter.
Last weekend was just divine! 21C and i guess in Adelaide thats about standard but here... well you'd think these people hadnever seen the sun before! They were all out in the parks (we visited Hyde and St James) and some were even stripping down to their underware.. come on people get a grip...
We had a lovely day - walked for miles, shopped, had lunch and afternoon tea in the park and people watched. I have sent some photos home but if you missed out firstly.. sorry i missed you and secondly email me and i'll send em on.
Let me step back a day tho to Friday night arriving in London from Holland - the first time i arrive back in London it was just that.. arriving in London, but after a whole week away arriving in London felt like i had arrived home... a pretty crazy sentation but i did really enjoy it. I think what made it nice was that i landed and then headed straight out to meet friends at the pub (certaintly wasn't a home coming) it was just Friday night drinks but with lost of familiar faces there i felt very welcome and yep like i said.. home = ) but as the QANTAS so says "i still call Australia home" so perhaps home away from home was more the case... but you get what i mean so i'll stop babbling...
Suday was lunch at the Defecters Weld - tho for some reason none of us can remember what it's called so we tend to call it the Guilded Kilt.. (not that this will mean anything to yo all reading this but if i read it again in 5 years i'll giggle = P) Yummy lamb chops for lunch! Miss Lamb...
Tomorrow Nick and I are off to the theatre - i wow tickets to see a play done by the royal Shakesphere Company. This season is called the Spanish Golden Age and the play we are seeing is called Dog in the Manger (anyone even heard of it...?) Even if it's average it was FREE! Have read some reviews and do not have very high hopes as one of the comments was that the cast out numberred the audience... o oh.
Everyone here is looking forward to the Easter long weekend - tho as guessed London doesn't quite get the no work on Good Friday thing. Most places are open just like any other day. I'm hoping to see the new Wed Anderson film the Life Aquatic of ... and also get to the Matisse Exhibition that is on. Friday night will be... you guessed it... a few drinks at the pub!
Saturday Nick and I are off to Windsor for the day and then on Sunday a buch of us are going watch the big boat race between Cambridge and Oxford follow by a late Easter Lunch.
Monday the plans are Greenwich, with the big photo oppertunity of being able to have one foot in the eastern hemisphere and one in the western... nice one! He he
Hope you all have a wonderful Easter
Miss you lots
Cherry xx
5 Comments:
Still reading your blog, Cherry.
Here's a site for the play. The reviews aren't all bad :-)
http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/doginamanger.html
Cheers,
Michael V.
Hi cherry! Sounds like you'll be having a fun-filled Easter!Miss you- and your hair looks pretty! xx Amanda
Hi Cherry,
Back on line after a short break so I've got some catching up to do. Your Dad still beats me completing the cross quiz but he is good at guessing. He and Andrew popped in for a birthday drink last night which was a great way to finish the Easter weekend.
Off to Andrew's for coffee tomorrow.
Hope you post some photo's of Greenwich as I have been reading a bit about it.
Glad to hear London is feeling like home.
Keep well
John
Hi Cherry, your cuz David G here. Love your blog. My baby Georgie is still packing it around South America, having a wonderful time. Here is a sample of her e-mails:
"ola amigos!
So, were did I last leave you all hanging in suspense? Think I was in
Bariloche. After having a week of doing nothing but eat chocolate and pastries I decided to head further south to el Calafate, still in Argentina but now I’m in Patagonia. really freezing! cute little town, not as big as Bariloche and doesn’t have a cinema (yes I went in Barlioche Meet the Fockers) but does have one of the biggest advancing glaciers in the world. so at 4.45am in the morning me and three other Aussies got in a taxi and headed off to look at the huge clump of ice.
Of course when we got there the sun wasn’t even up so we couldn’t see a dam thing. then slowly it became lighter as the sun rose from behind the mountains and made beautiful pink and orange reflections off the glacier. (perto moreno) stayed there for a few hours trying to be
National Geographic photographers but doesn’t really work with a $500 digital camera. It’s best to go at this time though because you save AR$30 (AUD$15) and you get to enjoy the view before the herds from the tourist buses come flocking in.
Then we went on a boat right in front of the glacier for more ice photos. But it was really beautiful and deafening when the pieces fall
off into the water as the glacier stands 2.5km above water. huge!
Then as there is not much else to do in this town I left. went on a killer bus ride to Rio Gallegos and then to Ushuaia. 28hrs later I arrived in the most southern city in the world. Again cute town. Met a sweet little Italian girl on the bus and a really genuinely sweet and nice Israeli guy so have been hanging with them. Tried to walk to another glacier the other day but the rain was coming in side ways and the fog was almost impassable. But yesterday we walked(because I don’t trek) for 6 or 7hrs through the national park. All fairy and pixie land. Beautiful green moss on all the decomposing trees, leaves. Just like the forest in Legend with Tom Cruise. But he wasn’t here.
So now I’m about to go on a boat trip around the Beagle Canal to see some sea lions but that’s another story. After this I’m heading to Buenos Aries to catch up with 4 Irish people I met in el Calafate just in time for Patties Day. I’m a little scared!
Until next time my sweet friends hope all is well back home or were ever you are!
much love and chocolate, Georgie! xoxooxox"
Hey Cherry,
Thanks for the birthday card. It arrived today. Very special to get one from the UK!
Lots of celebrations this weekend. Kery's Dad, Mum, Uncle, sister and Nephew for BBQ tonight, Kerry's sister Jenny's engaement party tomorrow and her Dad's 70th b'day party here on Sunday.
Enjoy spring, the blossom would be a treat after a cold drab winter.
Love
John
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