Holiday Weeks

[dotinthesky]

My boyfriend and I are looking to escape London. Sometime next week, hopefully off this island. We've looked at trains, buses and airplanes. We've looked at Last Minute deals, suggestions by friends on Trip Advisor and on Livejournal, work colleagues tips - anything... it's been hard!

Our latest plan is to take a train to Portsmouth, a ferry across to France and spend a few days over there. But we can't find an available hotel room...

In the meantime, I've been blessed with sunshine in London during this first week off work. I've been to ice cream festivals (with fj), walks around Regent's Park followed by beers and burgers (with suzi, clay, sarah and rattler), sunbathing in Victoria Park with my boyfriend, gym sessions, yoga classes, pizza at the Lauriston, pints outside the BFI while watching the crowds go by, some fiction writing, some movie watching, some video game playing and a LOT of resting.

I'm hoping to go swimming in Hampstead Heath tomorrow - my first time there. It's part of my plan of using this time off to do fun things around London I've never done before, while taking advantage of the good weather.

An old friend from uni arrives tomorrow night and spends the weekend with us. I foresee walks down Regent's Canal to Broadway Market, lunch at London Fields, some dancing in the evening, breakfast at the Pavillion Cafe in Victoria Park... all the money I could have spent in some Greek restaurant I'm going to spend right here, in London's EastEnd.

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'm curious to see them now! I went skinny dipping once with a friend in Montreal and our biggest worry was that the pond had contaminated stuff from the city. I think tomorrow we just want the combined experience of being at the Heath during a sunny day (when most are at work), drinking coffee and eating there, dipping a few times in the water, taking it easy. I expect it will be chilly as hell in the water.