Nan and Pop have been staying with us for the past two weeks. On their first weekend Benny and I had organised very good British weather of being freezing cold and wet. On the Sunday we went to have a traditional roast lunch at a local place. Nan and Pop really liked it and it was a chance to meet our friends Lee and Mossy. After lunch we went for a walk along the river. On their first weekend Nanna even had time to teach me how to make cornflake biscuits. Very yummy.
I took Monday off and spent the day with them. We went to the National Gallery and had lunch in Trafalgar Square. We went to Westminister to see Big Ben and Houses of Parliament. We walked around a few gardens admiring the tulips and walked across to Waterloo. Nanna and Pop safely got home by themselves on the train to Putney. For the rest of the week they spent their days wandering around Putney.
Last weekend we just had we went to Cornwall. We picked up a hire car straight after work on Friday and drove a really long time, through Friday rush hour, general congestion and a car accident to finally arrive at our accommodation at 10:40 than the expected time of 8:40pm. We stayed right on the water at a gorgeous 2 bed apartment. We turned up and to our surprise the fridge was stocked with juice, bread, milk and coffee/tea. We got up in the morning to a magnificent view, you could jump off our balcony onto the sand if you wanted to.
On our first day we drove to Land's End through the country side were we heard Pop say almost every 5 minutes "This is bloody beautiful". We heard these words over our three days in Cornwall and it was wonderful. We saw so many sheep, cattle and fields of canola. The landscape was amazing. There were little coves along the sew front with big cliff drops. On out way to Land's End we stopped at Pinzance, it is a smallish town. There is a magnificent castle on an island that you can walk to when it is low tide. For some unusual reason the castle was closed on a Saturday but we were still able to walk across and have a look.
On the Sunday we did some more driving and explored parts of Plymouth and Launceston. Across the weekend we ended up driving 800 kilometres. Plymouth was great. It is a quite a big city set in a harbour. We had the best scones with jam and clotted cream and a tiny little cafe. There was heaps of sail boats out as the weather was pretty good. Once home we went out for dinner at a place called Kahuna which is at the foot of a tiny beach like Little Cove. As the sun goes down really late now we were able to sit through the whole dinner being able to admire the beach and the boys on their stag do. It is really confusing Nan and Pop that the sun goes down late. I am training them to go to bed after 10:30 and sleep in which is a good change.
On the Monday, which was a Bank Holiday we drove to Bath where Nan and Pop were continuing their journey and we were going back home. Before our drive we did a quick walk along the cliffs from where we had just been staying. The views were amazing. I couldn't believe that the water was so clear and an unusual green colour. The thing I couldn't get used to was seeing little rabbits hopping everywhere including on the sand. They were so fast it was hard for us to take pictures of them. To get to Bath we drove through Honiton. Because of the holiday most things were shut. We stopped in for lunch and a quick look at the antique stores. After that we heard more of Pop's catch phrase and drove through the country side again. When we got to Bath we checked Nan and Pop into a cute hotel in a quiet part of Bath. It was on the banks of a river and Pop had requested a view with the best view. Ben and I just had time to see the Roman Baths before catching the train back to London. The Roman Baths were really interesting and beautiful. Pop I think was the most impressed. It was sad and a bit scary to leave Nan and Pop. They were going to be driving on UK roads listening to the Sat Nav for the next three days. Luckily they arrived safely home on Thursday night.
This weekend we are going to explore parts of London. Nan and Pop are off to Inzell and Vienna this week to meet Renate and see Jutta. They are really looking forward to it.
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