Another few weeks in the days of our lives

Over the past two weeks we have had very busy time in London, seeing quite a few different people at different functions.  Two weekends ago Benny went to a European Cup rugby match involving our local team in South-West London Harlequins.  They won convincingly to advance to the quarter finals in the coming weeks.  After the match Sarah met up with the rest of the group after a day out shopping in the city.  On the Sunday we had a day at home primarily, with Sarah's cousin David coming over for dinner. We made a lovely dinner and had a great time catching up.

During the following week we were out mosts nights seeing various people after the Christmas/New Year break for dinner.  Towards the end of the week the weather changed and we had quite a bit of snow from Friday to Sunday, which made travel around london very interesting.  

During that weekend it was one of our friend's birthday and he decided that he wanted to complete the Monopoly pub crawl, visiting all 22 streets and 4 stations on the board.  Starting at 10am and finishing at midnight we were successfully able to have atleast half a pint at all 26 of the pubs.  Sarah did not start at the beginning of the day, she joined the group later in the afternoon at lunch near piccadilly circus.

On Monday night this week Benny surprise me with date night. We went to dinner and the theatre in the West End. We had a lovely dinner at a French restaurant near the theatre and then ventured down to see One Man, Two Governors. This is a very funny production about a man who has two different bosses and about him getting confused with which tasks to complete for each boss.  We both very much enjoyed the show.

This week we are off to the Cotswolds for a couple of nights to stay in a cottage with a group of friends. Hopefully do a couple of walks in the countryside to try a few pubs.  It should be a great weekend.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

So January is well underway and I still haven't had a chance to blog about our Christmas trip. I was just reading a blog and she mentioned that the feeling you get when the aeroplane leaves the tarmac is something you'll never stop chasing. They are so right. We have already started booking our trips for this year. I promise to get back into the swing of more regular updates.

So after our last day of work, we flew to Sofia in Bulgaria for 7 days of skiing with Cam, Elise, and my cousin Chris. Bulgaria is famous for cheap ski holidays. It was filled with lots of UK families. We landed in Sofia and went on a three hour bus ride to Bansko which is one of the main ski areas. The accommodation was nice as a few mentioned on the bus on the way there that things tended to fall off like handles on cupboards. The next morning we were up early ready for skiing. Chris, Cam and I went for our ski test to get into ski school groups. Part of our package included 4 hours of lessons a day. We were put into three separate groups and we hit the slopes. The weather was amazing for our stay. Blue sky's every day. Sadly no snow fell but we had a great time. I was in bed for two days with a bad cold that I got before we left but other than that it was a great holiday.

Bulgaria is an interesting place. We all agreed it wasn't really Chrismassy. No Christmas lights or carols playing. The Bulgarians loved their dance music. On Christmas we decide to go to the grocery store and that was a huge struggle. Lucky for my limited German skills I could translate how to cook the only meat we could find. It was a cryovav pork by a German company. We could only find two vegetables to roast which was carrots and onions. It was a little odd, as it really didn't feel like Christmas, especially with our non-Christmas meal. Elise kindly had bought a few things to decorate the apartment.  It was definitely a lovely holiday skiing but I don't think I'll be rushing back to Bulgaria anytime soon.

We returned back to London on 29 Dec. It was pouring with rain, colder than the ski field and no trains were working to Putney. This really wasn't ideal late on a Saturday night. So we jumped in a black cab for an expensive trip home. Not an amazing end to a holiday.

We had a lovely few days back in London. We spent New Years at a great house party up and very close 20 minutes walk from our flat. It was a great night with friends, filled with yummy champagne, food and games. We went back to work only two short days after. Luckily not long until we go away to the Cotswolds for a weekend and New York in February to see Lauren and Steve.