Monday 12 July 2010

Fabulous Footie Weekend!

What a wonderful World Cup 2010 weekend!. It's still hot hot hot and on Saturday we took a long walk along the Southbank, watching the tourists sweat as they waited in queues for the attractions on the other side of the river :)



We stopped at Strada near Tower Bridge for a pint and again at Black & Blue near Borough Market for a snack.




It is unbelievable how many blooming flowers there are everywhere you look.

Every lamp post has a large basket overflowing with colour!
I took these pics in Canary Wharf and outside our apartment.
Our balcony food garden needed no help after the winter snow. The mint, rocket and strawberries just shot up from what looked like bare ground.

And then there was the footie! To watch the Holland v Spain final we headed to the Dutch pub in Soho, but seeing the queues, we decided on another pub just 100 meters away and also filled to capasity with Dutch people.

The atmostphere was fantastic! I thought we were going to raise the roof, and even though the Dutch played dirty (as usual) we still loved watching it.




After way too many beers, we decided on a late dinner in China Town, by which time no more tubes were running, so we had to walk through thousands of Spanish revellers from Leicester Square, to Covent Garden and then to Waterloo Bridge to catch the night bus home.

A Great End to a Great Weekend :)

Wednesday 7 July 2010

Brussels / Bruxelles / Brussel

After 3 years of winter, summer has arrived! 29 & 30 degrees and not just during the week when we all sit in airconditioned freezers. No, this time we are enjoying hot weekends both in London and Brussels!

William has found work contracting to a bank in Brussels for a few months, so we are once again part of that micro trend of professional couples that live and work in separate cities - separate countries even!
But it's all good. We share the travelling, one weekend he returns to our apartment in London and the next I visit him at his pied-à-terre in Brussels.


Last weekend - another blissfully warm one - I visited him. Just 2 hours on the Eurostar et voila! - chocolates, beer, french food and sightseeing :)

Chocolats de la Belgique!
William's pied-à-terre in Brussels







Une petite et une grande Leffe Blonde and footie (Germany v Argentina)





Manneken Pis - the Tour de France was passing through Brussels while we were there.
Hotel de Ville / Stadhuis on la Grand Place