We get up late. It’s warm and sunny outside so we head for the nearby station (an incredible building, first photo) to get breakfast. I have a rasperry jam filled donut (look at all the filling, Swiss bakers take note!). From here, we drive to Covent Garden where we decide to finally visit the London Transport Museum. It’s been on our list for long. We [Weiterlesen]

We get up rather early today. We meet Claire, Linda and some more fans for breakfast at the banks of River Thames. The sun is shining and a beautiful day lays ahead of us. We stoll along the river from London Eye to Giraffe restaurant. Gabi and I share a Croque Monsieur and a stack of pancakes. Yummy! After breakfast, we continue to the Barbican [Weiterlesen]

Today, we’re meeting Swiss friends at Piccadilly Circus: It’s their very first visit to London and we’ll show them around a bit. From the advertising screens and the Eros statue, we head for Chinatown and Leicester Square where a lot of film premieres take place. It’s not far to Trafalgar Square and the Admiral Nelson Column. We have lunch at The Sherlock Holmes pub: fish [Weiterlesen]

It’s the fourth time that we travel to the UK this year. And what a year it was! We’ve met a lot of wonderful friends and made new ones, met Benedict Cumberbatch at Sherlocked convention and seen him again as Hamlet on the stage, and Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, stars of Back to the Future with its 30 year anniversary AND the date [Weiterlesen]

From 29 October to 15 November 2014, we’ve been on holiday to the UK once again. Here’s our itinerary: 29 October 2014: Driving to the UK 30 October 2014: Basingstoke and Frankenstein 31 October 2014: Top Gear Track Experience 1 November 2014: Bluewater 2 November 2014 (morning): Bicester Village 2 November 2014 (afternoon): Oxford 3 November 2014: Legoland Windsor 4 November 2014: Resting day 5 [Weiterlesen]

Every journey to the UK ends with eating all the donuts that we’ve brought along. We and the in-laws have become very good at this. 🙂 (above: before, below: after)

After a great last day, we have to say goodbye to London and the United Kingdom. Thank you for having us! We enjoyed ourselves a lot over here and will be back for sure. We held back from buying much more things and everything stows away in the car better than we thought. We’ll have a bigger trunk next time nevertheless. We leave the hotel [Weiterlesen]

In the evening, we listen to a talk about the Arecibo message at the British Film Institute. It’s hard to believe that it’s already the 40th anniversary of this radio message that was sent from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico hopefully to be received by extraterrestrials one day. I have been fascinated by the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (aka SETI) since I was [Weiterlesen]

We arrive in the Southbank area mid-afternoon. We have tickets for a talk in the evening around here. The weather is fabulous – as it was during most of our journey. We enjoy the silence and having nothing to do and spend a very relaxed last day of our holidays. During sunset, London appears at its best. Above: the London Eye. Below: the Parliament with [Weiterlesen]

This morning, we’re at the BBC Good Food Show which takes places over the whole weekend at Olympia. A lot of stores and chains have stalls here and many newcomers present their sauces, jams, chocolate, meat products, curries and more to become know to a broader audience. In the evening, Jamie Oliver will broadcast his latest Food Tube show live from here. But we already [Weiterlesen]