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Yes, it’s true! We are already in 2008 and, as usual, we were too lazy to write a post earlier to wish you a happy new year. Anyway, here it is:

Happy New Year to all of you!

Now it’s time to make a summary of all the posts that I should have written in 2007 and I didn’t. The most important are the ones about the new places that we have visited. As we have written in our first post, we wanted this blog to register, between other things, the trips that we did. So, I will now leave here a list of some of the new places that we have visited and maybe I’ll get the motivation to write the posts about them in the near future :)

So here’s the list and a picture of each of these places:

1. Newstead Abbey and Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire;

2. Cambridge;

3. Halkidiki (Greece) ;

4. Amesterdam (The Netherlands);

5. Sealife, Birmingham;

6. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire;

7. and finally, Prague (Czech Republic).

Also, I should write a post about Oxford, which we have visited in 2006.

Will I write these posts? Stay tuned to find out :)

On the 25th of November, we’ve visited London for the first time. We’ve been to London several times but we’ve never visited the city - only the airports. We went with our good friend Sarawut who is a excellent guide :) Thank you Sarawut for showing us so many beautiful things in one day!

We’ve started our day very early: we left Nottingham at 7.30am and arrived at London around 10.50am. The post is organised by place of visit.

London Eye

The first thing we did was buying a ticket for the underground. Then, we went to see the London Eye. It’s impressive to see such a big wheel in the middle of a city. We’ve also seen the River Thames (the London Eye is on the South Bank of the River). By the way, do you know that it is also called the Millenium Wheel and it is the largest observation wheel in the world?

Big Ben

After that, we’ve walked to the Big Ben and Westminster Palace (the Big Ben is a tower of the palace). It’s beautiful and it’s nice to see it with our own eyes. Then, it started to rain a lot! :) But that was not a problem for us. To avoid the rain, we caught the underground to the Trafalgar Square.

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• A weekend in Nottingham

This last weekend (1st to 3rd December) we had the visit of our friends Zé and Alexandra. It was nice to see them again and, although the weather was a bit cold, we were very lucky, since there was no rain! Anyway, the purposes of this post are manifold: we wish to record their visit to Nottingham, to write a little about what we have done and to show to our friends and family that have not been here yet the place where we are.

So, let’s start with the places where we have been (ordered chronologically).

Beeston

Beeston is the town where we live (3 miles from the city centre). In the Saturday morning, we basically walked from our house, through the High Road (the one in the picture), to the bus station. We got into the wrong bus (sorry guys!) and we went in the opposite direction; we spent something like 30 or 40 minutes in the returning bus :( But, of course, this was planned: we wanted to show them Chilwell! ;)

University Park and the squirrels

From Beeston we went to the University Park. We got in through Highfields Park and we had two very specific goals: the first, less important, was to show them the Trent Building and the main campus; the second, and most important, was to feed the squirrels :)

To be accurate, we wanted to feed all the other animals as well (pigeons, ducks, geese and other kinds of birds that are usually interested :-) ). Squirrels are very friendly and they come to your hand to get the food! Zé took some nice pictures, as you can deduce from the squirrel photo.

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