My trip..
As promised, some rambling about my visit in London.
I had a really fantastic week over there! London is such a great city and I'm so happy I didn't cancel.
The hotel was really nice Thank you very much talesofspike for suggesting it!
They had this cute cubicle for a bathroom and I thought that was just the best idea ever! Hell, not even my own bathroom was ever that clean.... And we had a TV (which I honestly didn't notice while booking; so I got to watch The Simpson's in english and can I just say that the guy who decided on their voices for the German version should be shot! The original is just soooo much better!
On Thursday we had dinner with schehrezade_1 and she's just as sweet in real life as online. The evening was really great, and yes Shez, I really liked the tour you gave us! (She's a great tour-guide and really knows a lot about her city. Very interesting.) And thanks again for the prezzie, that was so sweet. I'm really looking forward to seeing her again in October!
Did some shopping too, but not for clothes as I had originally intended. They don't really have a lot of stuff fitting my style anymore. Instead I came home with about 20 books. I noticed a while back that I don't like books in my own language anymore - as in NOT AT ALL. They just sound wrong somehow. But the offer on English books on amazon is not exactly huge, so I went a bit crazy when I saw all the book-stores.
Btw, alwaysjbj: Your suggestion of Anne McCaffrey was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I now own the first nine volumes of Pern and am currently reading the last of those. I gulped them down one a night, couldn't stop...
Ok, that'S about it. Oh, a last note: I really think people understood what I said, which still makes me all giddy since I hadn't actually spoken English in years and was terrified I had forgotten everything. And what use is being able to think in a language if you can't speak it... So now I'm a lot less nervous about October. *lol*
Something else - but not.
I think I managed to catch up on most fics last night, but in my greed to read as many of them as fast as possible I didn't leave any revs. Sorry about that. There was a lot of really great stuff posted during that week and I feel bad about not telling you that I liked it. So Tales, Schez, Always, Patti, Wulfie, Nimah, Tam, HollyDB, Temp, Kat, MadRog and all those I forgot just now - great work and sorry about the lack of revs!
I had a really fantastic week over there! London is such a great city and I'm so happy I didn't cancel.
The hotel was really nice Thank you very much talesofspike for suggesting it!
They had this cute cubicle for a bathroom and I thought that was just the best idea ever! Hell, not even my own bathroom was ever that clean.... And we had a TV (which I honestly didn't notice while booking; so I got to watch The Simpson's in english and can I just say that the guy who decided on their voices for the German version should be shot! The original is just soooo much better!
On Thursday we had dinner with schehrezade_1 and she's just as sweet in real life as online. The evening was really great, and yes Shez, I really liked the tour you gave us! (She's a great tour-guide and really knows a lot about her city. Very interesting.) And thanks again for the prezzie, that was so sweet. I'm really looking forward to seeing her again in October!
Did some shopping too, but not for clothes as I had originally intended. They don't really have a lot of stuff fitting my style anymore. Instead I came home with about 20 books. I noticed a while back that I don't like books in my own language anymore - as in NOT AT ALL. They just sound wrong somehow. But the offer on English books on amazon is not exactly huge, so I went a bit crazy when I saw all the book-stores.
Btw, alwaysjbj: Your suggestion of Anne McCaffrey was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I now own the first nine volumes of Pern and am currently reading the last of those. I gulped them down one a night, couldn't stop...
Ok, that'S about it. Oh, a last note: I really think people understood what I said, which still makes me all giddy since I hadn't actually spoken English in years and was terrified I had forgotten everything. And what use is being able to think in a language if you can't speak it... So now I'm a lot less nervous about October. *lol*
Something else - but not.
I think I managed to catch up on most fics last night, but in my greed to read as many of them as fast as possible I didn't leave any revs. Sorry about that. There was a lot of really great stuff posted during that week and I feel bad about not telling you that I liked it. So Tales, Schez, Always, Patti, Wulfie, Nimah, Tam, HollyDB, Temp, Kat, MadRog and all those I forgot just now - great work and sorry about the lack of revs!