Loving London

Dear Everyone,

after a fabulous weekend I am sitting in my bed writing this post and I realise once again that I absolutely love London. I fall in love with it again and again every day and when I see the Shard and the Gherkin in the distance from a hilltop it strikes me each time, that I live here. I am not an ordinary tourist anymore.

So this Saturday I got to know a new part of London: Hampstead. Hampstead is truly beautiful. There are so many nice houses and busy streets, but also the Hampstead Heath park, where you can take long walks and you have a great view over London from Parliament Hill. That's exactly what I did, taking a nice and long walk through Hampstead. Unfortunately I had to go back home in the afternoon to babysit, but I will definitely come back to Hampstead.

Today we went to the British Museum, which holds huge collections of artefacts from Africa to Ancient Greece and Iron Age Britain. After wandering around for some hours we still didn't see everything, but left to get lunch at Nando's. Then we walked over New Oxford Street, High Holborn, Chancery Lane and Fleet Street to St. Paul's Cathedral. Before we attended an Advent Procession, we crossed the Millenium Bridge and enjoyed the great picture of London at dawn. The Advent Procession was magical with everyone singing together and lots of candles burning. It also gave us the chance to go inside St. Paul's for free. 

I hope you all had a great first Advent.

See you!