Holiday Weeks
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My boyfriend and I are looking to escape London. Sometime next week, hopefully off this island. We've looked at trains, buses and airplanes. We've looked at Last Minute deals, suggestions by friends on Trip Advisor and on Livejournal, work colleagues tips - anything... it's been hard!
Our latest plan is to take a train to Portsmouth, a ferry across to France and spend a few days over there. But we can't find an available hotel room...
In the meantime, I've been blessed with sunshine in London during this first week off work. I've been to ice cream festivals (with
fj), walks around Regent's Park followed by beers and burgers (with
suzi,
clay,
sarah and
rattler), sunbathing in Victoria Park with my boyfriend, gym sessions, yoga classes, pizza at the Lauriston, pints outside the BFI while watching the crowds go by, some fiction writing, some movie watching, some video game playing and a LOT of resting.
I'm hoping to go swimming in Hampstead Heath tomorrow - my first time there. It's part of my plan of using this time off to do fun things around London I've never done before, while taking advantage of the good weather.
An old friend from uni arrives tomorrow night and spends the weekend with us. I foresee walks down Regent's Canal to Broadway Market, lunch at London Fields, some dancing in the evening, breakfast at the Pavillion Cafe in Victoria Park... all the money I could have spent in some Greek restaurant I'm going to spend right here, in London's EastEnd.
Our latest plan is to take a train to Portsmouth, a ferry across to France and spend a few days over there. But we can't find an available hotel room...
In the meantime, I've been blessed with sunshine in London during this first week off work. I've been to ice cream festivals (with
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I'm hoping to go swimming in Hampstead Heath tomorrow - my first time there. It's part of my plan of using this time off to do fun things around London I've never done before, while taking advantage of the good weather.
An old friend from uni arrives tomorrow night and spends the weekend with us. I foresee walks down Regent's Canal to Broadway Market, lunch at London Fields, some dancing in the evening, breakfast at the Pavillion Cafe in Victoria Park... all the money I could have spent in some Greek restaurant I'm going to spend right here, in London's EastEnd.
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Date: 2012-09-06 11:45 am (UTC)K says we are now booked - it's a deal where you get the ferry plus two nights in a hotel. The provider is now looking for an available hotel for us!
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Date: 2012-09-06 12:29 pm (UTC)Saying that, I've been thinking about Chris and I renting a cottage somewhere we can take the dogs to, just so we can go for long walks and read books and not be distracted by housework or whatever.
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Date: 2012-09-06 01:47 pm (UTC)I went swimming at Hampstead Heath for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I was a bit freaked out at first, while I love swimming out of doors, I vastly prefer the sea, or at least large lakes where I don't have to share the water with wildlife. The Ladies' Pond was a bit out of my comfort zone because the water was quite murky and full of weeds, ducks, dragonflies etc, but as long as I didn't go near the edge, it was fine, and I'd go back. I've never been to the mixed or men's ponds (obviously) but I imagine they are similar.
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