Am getting so far behind in this blog that I’m just gonna have to start really summarising!!
We also went to Belgium... my second trip but first time to Bruges. I love Belgium. Beer. Chocolate. Waffles. aaahhh.... I was a little disappointed in the Christmas markets in Bruges though. They're meant to be some of the best... but I found them to be really small... not much there at all... definitely not a patch on the Bath markets. The city itself though is really pretty. Lots of small cobbled streets, little canals.... beautiful. We didn’t have the greatest weather which was a shame
From there I headed back to the UK and Mum and Tash headed to Paris!
Coupla days ‘break’ at home in Elm Pak, which consisted on catching up with washing and going to Matt’s Christmas Party – which was the night before Bel and Troy arrived – so we didn’t get a lot of sleep that night – Matt slept laying down on the back seat the whole drive to the airport! – It is kinda cool driving the Landcruiser through the main streets of Londond – down Regent Street, around Trafalgar Square...
Belinda and Troy were lucky enough to get 2 of our tours (Mum and Tash got the driving tour to Windsor and the Cotswolds and the brief walking tour to Kensington) ; The first one was a driving tour around London – because it was the weekend we were able to drive them past a lot of the main sights and cause it was so early there wasn’t a lot of traffic.... Saw Buckingham Palace... Greenwich... Trafalgar Square... Westminster... etc etc
The second tour wasn't planned, but we ended up taking Belinda and Troy on a walking/pub tour of London. Started in Covent Garden with some pies and beer... then to Trafalgar Square and introduced them to the Wetherspoons chain of pubs (cheap! – don’t matter for the alcohol but the food is definitely ‘cheap’ too!)... down to Westminster and on a cruise down the Thames to Tower Hill... found another Wetherspoons!... Jumped on a bus down Oxford Street to Oxford Circus.. had a slightly disappointing meal at Garfunkels (with Coke!) and said Goodnight from there! Was a busy but fun day!
We ended up leaving the UK the same day.. Bel and Troy to London via Eurostar... and Matt and I jumped in the car to head to the Black Forest... Straight into France where they were having one of their coldest Winters in history. Woohoo!
December was a fantastic, albeit flippin cold, month! I finished up at work on the 2nd and was at Heathrow at 7am the next morning meeting Mum and Tash in the arrivals hall! Had a great time showing them... and then Belinda and Troy a couple of weeks later... around London Town. An early stop was shopping... for warm clothes!! Was great watching Tash be bemused and excited by some of the quirky English things... I’ve just got used to them all... she found the politeness of the tube drivers particularly amusing... “Mind the Gap please” is apparently a lot more polite than the Sydney version of “Stand clear”. Although I wasn’t there to witness, she was also pretty “chuffed” (yes, I do have a bit of an English accent now) that she got one of the guards at Windsor Palace to smile! Had a big splurge one day - went to Gordon Ramsays Maze restaurant - yummo!! then to Wicked at Apollo Victoria - one of the best musicals I've ever seen - it was unreal!
We also went to Belgium... my second trip but first time to Bruges. I love Belgium. Beer. Chocolate. Waffles. aaahhh.... I was a little disappointed in the Christmas markets in Bruges though. They're meant to be some of the best... but I found them to be really small... not much there at all... definitely not a patch on the Bath markets. The city itself though is really pretty. Lots of small cobbled streets, little canals.... beautiful. We didn’t have the greatest weather which was a shameWe stayed in Brussels, near the European Parliament in some serviced apartments - Thon Parnasse. It was really good value actually... a little way from Grand Place but the station was across the road and the metro was just down the street.
From there I headed back to the UK and Mum and Tash headed to Paris!
Coupla days ‘break’ at home in Elm Pak, which consisted on catching up with washing and going to Matt’s Christmas Party – which was the night before Bel and Troy arrived – so we didn’t get a lot of sleep that night – Matt slept laying down on the back seat the whole drive to the airport! – It is kinda cool driving the Landcruiser through the main streets of Londond – down Regent Street, around Trafalgar Square...
Belinda and Troy were lucky enough to get 2 of our tours (Mum and Tash got the driving tour to Windsor and the Cotswolds and the brief walking tour to Kensington) ; The first one was a driving tour around London – because it was the weekend we were able to drive them past a lot of the main sights and cause it was so early there wasn’t a lot of traffic.... Saw Buckingham Palace... Greenwich... Trafalgar Square... Westminster... etc etc
The second tour wasn't planned, but we ended up taking Belinda and Troy on a walking/pub tour of London. Started in Covent Garden with some pies and beer... then to Trafalgar Square and introduced them to the Wetherspoons chain of pubs (cheap! – don’t matter for the alcohol but the food is definitely ‘cheap’ too!)... down to Westminster and on a cruise down the Thames to Tower Hill... found another Wetherspoons!... Jumped on a bus down Oxford Street to Oxford Circus.. had a slightly disappointing meal at Garfunkels (with Coke!) and said Goodnight from there! Was a busy but fun day!
We ended up leaving the UK the same day.. Bel and Troy to London via Eurostar... and Matt and I jumped in the car to head to the Black Forest... Straight into France where they were having one of their coldest Winters in history. Woohoo!
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