From 5–16 November 2019, we’ve been on holiday in the UK. Tuesday, 5 November 2019: Greeted by fireworks Wednesday, 6 November 2019: Costco with Caroline, Guildford, and a trip to the Cinema Thursday, 7 November 2019: Bluewater Shopping Centre Friday, 8 November 2019: I drive the A-Team van! Saturday, 9 November 2019: Pub lunch and a visit to the garden centre Sunday, 10 November 2019: [Weiterlesen]

Like almost every trip to the UK, this one also ends with eating the Krispy Kreme donuts we brought with us. This time we meet at the senior residence where Gabi’s grandfather lives, who also helps with eating. As always, here are the before and after photos.

Our holidays are coming to an end. Today we drive home again. But before that I walk over to Pret to get some Christmas sandwiches for the trip – it’s much earlier than I usually go there to pick up breakfast. On Saturday morning, there is much less traffic in and around London than on weekdays. We make good progress and reach the Eurotunnel terminal [Weiterlesen]

On our holiday’s last day we make our way to the Brunswick Centre near where we used to live (in the brick house on the first photo). Here we do our grocery shopping and ask ourselves, as always, what the lady at the till will think as we only buy sweet and salty snacks – and lots of them. We had planned to see if [Weiterlesen]

As I woke up with quite a headache today, we head out a little later. We drive to Spitalfield’s Market, with many food and sales stands with all kinds of homemade shirts, caps, cards, pictures and much more, vintage cameras, hats and all kinds of other things. Super exciting! Actually we wanted to eat Poutine for lunch, Canada’s national dish, which we had enjoyed here [Weiterlesen]

Today we visit Liberty, one of our two favourite department stores in London. They always have the most beautiful Christmas department. And there are new exciting objects to discover each time we’re here. And it is very beautiful how the rooms are decorated. A very special highlight awaits us on the second floor: the Liberty department store made from Lego! A Lego artist has used [Weiterlesen]

Today we start the day with a breakfast from Pret and then change the hotel room. Because the internet problem hasn’t been solved yet – and we just need the internet as we need the air to breathe. 😉 Then we make our way to Oxford Street. Here we mainly want to visit the department store Selfridges. We have lunch first: Gabi often gets the [Weiterlesen]

Today we leave Aldershot and drive on to London, where we’ll stay until Saturday. Driving there is very pleasant – even if we have the feeling that our satnav system leads us on a different way than usual. But we follow another white Evoque with Black Pack for quite a long time which makes me  happy. And we also spot a Lamborghini Aventador in the [Weiterlesen]

Today, another cosy day lays ahead of us. We drive in beautiful sunshine to Camberley, where we meet Peter, Caroline and Jack for lunch and spend the afternoon with them. The selection in the Italian restaurant is huge, and again we could order everything on the menu. In the end, I choose spaghetti carbonara baked in the oven and Gabi has pasta with meatballs. After [Weiterlesen]

Today we sleep in and later meet Clare and Dan for lunch. We are very happy to spend time with both of them. The “Heron at the Lake” is a really great pub with a terrace over the lake. In summer, this must be a fabulous place to be. But even now it is incredibly cosy inside, with the lit fireplace directly behind Gabi. We [Weiterlesen]