London Update

Well we have survived our first week in the UK!
We are enjoying ourselves and have been getting out and enjoying the sunshine and catching up with friends. Last Thursday night we caught up with Neil and Jenny Schiller (Neil was Renee's grade seven teacher) and they are the parents of our good friend Jo den Otter. They have been been traveling around Europe having loads of fun so it was good to have a drink and here some stories.

For our first weekend in London we were blessed with beautiful weather. For some locals it was a bit too warm getting up over 30 deg. Saturday morning Morgan and Esther and Steve and Larissa took us out for an old fashioned fry up. We had Salty bacon, fried eggs and sausage, and baked beans. It wasn't as greasy as you'd expect though. From there we made our way to Holland Park which is a large are of gardens , forest and sporting fields not to far away. Plenty of locals were out embracing the sunshine and lying around with there shirts off or in bikinis trying to get a tan or sunburn...
We were there for a different purpose which was to try and feed some of the local squirrels. We managed to find a few but these ones were a bit shy and wouldn't take the food from our hands. The did come pretty close and they were very cute.

Saturday night we entertained Penelope and Renee cooked dinner and i chucked on one of our cheap DVDs we picked up in Malaysia

Sunday Renee went with Penelope to the Spitafield markets ( Food and Fashion ) and i met a mate Luke whom i used to work with and we went to the old dock/port area to watch the London Triathlon. It was held in a revamped area where the ships used to dock but has now been converted into a nice residential and commercial precinct. It remedied me a bit of Teneriffe...

I have been getting into the local tradition of embracing all things football (soccer) and have been watching many games on sky TV and this afternoon i went to a local park for a kick around with Morgan and Steve.

I have uploaded some more London photos if you want to check them out below

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