Let’s have some more culture today! Nathan Sawaya builds art out of Lego bricks. The exhibition ‘The Art of the Brick’ shows an enormous amount of his Lego sculptures which are more than impressive. There are really big ones, e.g. a life-size T-Rex sceleton, but also very small ones. I still wonder where he got than many Lego bricks, and, can I get some as [Weiterlesen]

Today, we’re visiting the Museum of London with a temporary exhibition about Sherlock Holmes. It presents the London the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived in with many paintings from that time, there are lots of videoclips of the several Holmes that have been on screen since, and a huge display with items such as magnifying glass, pipe, hat and coat that became the consulting [Weiterlesen]

Today, we sleep in a bit and then head out to have a look around our neighborhood by car. There are lots of hills and on top, you find the most amazing and surely most expensive mansions. There are Ferraris, Porsches and many many Range Rovers parked at the roadside. We then continue to the city centre and look about from the car window. Meaning: [Weiterlesen]

Our visit to Blechley Park is one of the highlights of our journey for sure! On the one hand, Alan Turing, father of computers and IT, has developped a machine to decipher the Nazi’s enigma code during World War II, which used an incredibly difficult endocing that changed daily. In achieving this, he shortened the war by an estimated two years and saved millions of [Weiterlesen]

Today, we’re off to some grocery shopping at Sainesbury’s, stocking up on food that should bring us through Winter. And some bits and bites for our loved ones at home. Peppermint chocolate for instance, which is rather difficult to find in Switzerland. BTW, the photo is from when we started only. 😉 We meet Caroline and Jack for a dessert at Starbucks. In the afternoon, [Weiterlesen]

Today, we’re visiting the Bells Piece Christmas Fayre in Farnham. Caroline has a stall here and we don’t want to miss this. The Christmas Fayre reminds me a lot of local Christmas markets in Switzerland and they offer nearly the same. We look around, buy some things and have a cup of soup. We then stroll around Sainesbury’s – tomorrow, we’ll be back to stock [Weiterlesen]

About once per trip over, we visit the sea. This will remain a special experience for Swiss residents who don’t have any. We’ve been to Portsmouth before. Today, we’re here to meet Clare, a friend of Gabi, who lives on the nearby Isle of Wight. The Gunwharf area offers a lot of shops and restaurants. Time flies by while looking around, for example in a [Weiterlesen]

Today, it’s all about smaller stores. Hobbycraft has a huge variety (and much better than in Switzerland) of utensils and accessories on offer for all kinds of hobbies. After more stores, we have lunch at Pizza Hut and indulge in their GBP 6,99 all you can eat buffet of pizza, pasta and salat. After the American Store where we stock up on our American food, [Weiterlesen]

We continue to Bath, driving over scenic hills and autumn forests. Very nice! Bath has a lot of old buildings on offer as well. There are the famous Roman baths which the city is famous for, as well as the Royal Mineralwater Hospital. The sights close early, though, too early for us. We opt for a long stroll through the old town instead. Everything is [Weiterlesen]

We’ve wanted to visit Stonehenge for quite some time now. There’s a modern visitor centre with a huge exhibition (open since today only!) where we learn that there had been a wider circle with wooden pilars long before the stones arrived. And possible explanations to who, how and why the stones were put there. We’ve already seen them from a distance when we drove closer. [Weiterlesen]