Back in London for Winter

We arrived back around lunch time on the Monday. I did my Obsessive Compulsive cleaning of our room and located all our winter clothes as Damien went to the Laundry Matt. We got settled in ready to head back to work on Tuesday. I have been requested back at a school that I worked earlier in the year and Damien has picked up a couple of days as a Teacher’s Assistant. Hopefully our bank account will begin to look healthier after all our travelling. We don’t have any more travel booked until we can fund it.
Despite being offered teaching work for Thursday and Friday, Damien declined these to start looking for a more permanent accounting role. This paid off. His agency ran 3 roles past him on Wednesday evening and Thursday, an interview on Thursday evening and by Friday afternoon he was offered 3 months as a Project Accountant role, starting Monday!

Friday morning Damien visited the British Museum. This was good and not too busy, given it was a weekday, although plenty of school kids. It was very interesting looking through the Egyptian collection less than a week since being in Egypt. The main item in the gallery is the Rosetta Stone, which is the stone that enabled the ancient Egyptian language to be translated. The stone itself has the same thing written in 3 languages, ancient Egyptian, another form of Egyptian and Greek. The rest of the gallery had all sorts of stones, statues and coffins. The museum also offers free half hour guided tours of particular areas of the gallery. I joined one of these that discussed some of the Ancient Greek collection. This was quite interesting discussing different pots, plates and statues. The museum also has a lot of works from the Parthenon in Greece, that are displayed around the walls of a big gallery. Maybe we will have to visit Greece!
Friday night was Guy Forks night. This was one of first weekends we had in London last year. We have been living in London for a year! Sadly this year the bon fire night was a very cold and wet night, so we never ventured out. Saturday was a more sunny day. We went for a walk in Hyde Park, enjoying the colourful Autumn. We continued walking through Mayfair and over to Regent St. This weekend is the London to Brighton Vintage Car Rally. Regent street is closed so that the cars could be displayed, all of the cars are over 100 years old.
Sunday morning Damien got up early and headed to Hyde Park for the rally which started at 7am. It was cold but fun to see the old cars driving into the London traffic. Some were breaking down 200m after the start line. The afternoon was spent relaxing watching the rugby and F1 on TV.