There is one week left of school before another 2 weeks of holidays. Since neither of us will be working in this time we have decided that we will be having another trip, this time within England, up north.
Monday morning Christine was up and off to work. Damien got up as well hoping to get a few days teaching work. This was a non event, with the agency not even returning calls. They must know I’m not interested in long term work. Getting up early but not having work was a weird sensation for the first few days I didn’t know what to do with myself. Tuesday I headed to the National Gallery so as to avoid another day of wandering around in circles. The gallery was big, with heaps of great, but old paintings. Of note are Van Gough, Leonardo, William Turner, Renoir and Rembrandt.
After the gallery and once Christine was home we headed around the corner to visit Christy. We had half organized to have dinner together at her hostel. She is from Florida, so she was cooking Yankee Burgers and we obliged bringing some Aussie Wine. The place she is staying and working is a real hostel, hot a hotel. It has a nice lounge and was just nice to spend the evening in a different common room with different faces. Christy is headed to Italy with her Mom soon so we were looking at where she would be going and what they were doing, some of which were places we visited on out Italy trip.
Wednesday night we went for a stroll with Mel to Notting Hill. We have only just found out, a bit late, but once a month many of the galleries are open late. They are all small private galleries, and some put on music and drinks. The first one that we found was very busy, possibly due to the free wine. It had a lot of artists trying to promote their works, so was quite interesting. We had hoped to find some more trendy places but the others that we found were closed or not really having much happening at them. The girls instead decided to find an ice cream parlour to finish the evening.
The rest of the week was spent tidying our room and trying to sort out some of our stuff, although this did not prove to be too successful. Friday night we headed out to Earling Broadway with Tunde one of the girls Christine works with. We may be seeing her in Vietnam, so she was keen to talk to us about that. We had a big feed in a local Middle Eastern restaurant.
Monday morning Christine was up and off to work. Damien got up as well hoping to get a few days teaching work. This was a non event, with the agency not even returning calls. They must know I’m not interested in long term work. Getting up early but not having work was a weird sensation for the first few days I didn’t know what to do with myself. Tuesday I headed to the National Gallery so as to avoid another day of wandering around in circles. The gallery was big, with heaps of great, but old paintings. Of note are Van Gough, Leonardo, William Turner, Renoir and Rembrandt.
After the gallery and once Christine was home we headed around the corner to visit Christy. We had half organized to have dinner together at her hostel. She is from Florida, so she was cooking Yankee Burgers and we obliged bringing some Aussie Wine. The place she is staying and working is a real hostel, hot a hotel. It has a nice lounge and was just nice to spend the evening in a different common room with different faces. Christy is headed to Italy with her Mom soon so we were looking at where she would be going and what they were doing, some of which were places we visited on out Italy trip.
Wednesday night we went for a stroll with Mel to Notting Hill. We have only just found out, a bit late, but once a month many of the galleries are open late. They are all small private galleries, and some put on music and drinks. The first one that we found was very busy, possibly due to the free wine. It had a lot of artists trying to promote their works, so was quite interesting. We had hoped to find some more trendy places but the others that we found were closed or not really having much happening at them. The girls instead decided to find an ice cream parlour to finish the evening.
The rest of the week was spent tidying our room and trying to sort out some of our stuff, although this did not prove to be too successful. Friday night we headed out to Earling Broadway with Tunde one of the girls Christine works with. We may be seeing her in Vietnam, so she was keen to talk to us about that. We had a big feed in a local Middle Eastern restaurant.
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