Time is ticking on and my year in the UK has nearly come to a close...but not yet!
At the moment I am working a lot because the children have holidays (which means I don't get any) and the weekends are filled with me lying in bed, trying to recover from the week. N is gone now, too, which means I have no friend for the weekend to play with. This is what happens when you tie your leisure time to one friend - if this friend is gone you're f***ed. Also, because it is almost time to leave for me, I don't want to invest in a new friendship, nurture and tend it - only to leave in four weeks again (as if I could even find a friend in that amount of time, whom am I kidding??) Well, I am planning to go to Cambridge on one weekend, so something might happen there. Last weekend, N and I spent a day in London and went to Joe & The Juice, a juice bar around Leicester Square. The juices are very expensive (as everything healthy is), but it is really good and although I forgot to take a picture (silly me), they have lamps in there which are half inside the wall - which is pretty cool. We also hung out at Embankment which is always a good place to be on the weekends - it is probably the closest to a beach atmosphere. People are relaxed, artists perform and children cry. However, it started raining on the way back to Waterloo and I saw two hobos sitting just NOT under the bridge, begging for money. Believe me, I am not a person making fun of homeless people, quite the opposite, but why wouldn't they just move a couple of metres in, so the bridge would protect them from the pouring rain...well, I guess it wouldn't look quite so poor and pity-evoking... Yesterday, the children and I went to the Sea Life aquarium in London and it was like every Sea Life aquarium - disappointing. Seriously, has anyone ever been truly blown away by these aquariums? Tanks over tanks filled with boring, tiny fish which do not do anything and probably - if you're lucky - one remotely interesting tank. Admittedly, compared to other Sea Lifes (for instance Vienna), this one was much better as there were bigger sharks and aquariums but in the end, it was just fish swimming around and too many signs which you felt obliged to read (for 30 quid, you better do) but are damn boring. At least, as I was with the children, we went through the whole exhibition quite quickly and didn't linger at the boring parts. So, if you come to London, skip the aquarium and do something cooler like the London Dungeons, Madame Tussaud's or a Hop-on/Hop-off tour - it's better entertainment for the money - in my opinion. After we went to the aquarium, we found these cool benches around Embankment and I relaxed there – if you can call it relaxing. London’s atmosphere and art I will miss most because you just don’t find things like that in Austria – but I am sure I will come back in no time!
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AuthorIn September 2015 I started a new chapter of my life by moving (temporarily or permanently, not yet decided) to England where I work and socialise now. Archives
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