Categories: random, home, festivals
Tags: London, Greenbelt, exhibition, dress, shopping, Tate Modern, home, wedding
Date: 23 August 2007 17:32:26
So, some of you on facebook have already noticed I'm back in the UK for my holiday - it's wonderful to be here, but also very strange - familiar yet not what at all I've been used to these last few months. It nearly went pear-shaped though - I was transferring flights at Budapest, but with less than an hour between flights and a queue of transit passengers that was Very Very Long Indeed, I was starting to panic. Fortunately I managed to collar an airport worker who, when she heard I was on the Gatwick flight, whisked me through to the front of the queue (I'm such a VIP) and I got on the plane at the last minute! Phew!
Once in London I met up with HD (hooray!) and we went to the Tate Modern (where we had our first date, actually) and saw the Global Cities exhibition (Tractor Girl has already raved about it, and rightly so, it was excellent - if you get the chance then go, but it's only on till this weekend). After that I was knackered (I'd got up up at 3.45 Moldova time, which was 1.45 UK time, so by the time we finished at the Tate I'd already been awake 12+ hours and was starting to flag. So we headed over to Paddington (somewhat hindered by the rubbish suitcase that I'd bought in Romania, which has almost fallen apart after only 2 big journeys, and which probably won't survive another one) and are now back in sarf Wales. I've spent the day Greenbelt shopping, talking to the wedding dress shop (the dress has arrived. Unfortunately so have several centimetres on my waist and hips, argh), and catching up with my mum and dad. Tonight we're eating out with HD's sister and tomorrow we go to Greenbelt! I can't wait (though we are massively unprepared and unpacked). See some of you there :D