Good german friends, smelly cheese and funk elctro

Welcome to London! Katharina and Marek arrived on Sunday, bringing the sun with them. Along came the fantastic German accents and glorious food too. Marek will be for ever known for asking for two pin-ts (pronounced like the pin you sew with) and for producing cheese that would challenge my 10 day old bush walking socks. But the cheese was soooo good. Also great wine!

Sunday was a fine day, blue skies. We set out to see the sites, taking in Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye (although we still didn’t go on it). That night, due to Bridgette’s and Pete's fantastic organization, we had a traditional meal of baked beans on toast!

Monday, Katharina and Marek went off venturing and we met up in the evening to see the Good German. A rather surreal experience seeing George Clooney in 1940 and B/W. Very film noir, not liked by all, but a good experience. We ate some fine German Asian cooking and our visitors experienced our rather empty pantry! We now have soya sauce though!

Tuesday, once again the guest did play while the hosts went off to work. That night was a sumptuous banquet of Indian from our local Indian dinner with the cable TV in the back ground (Man U was playing to Pete's delight).

Wednesday was LCD Soundsystem night, what a night. The Astoria is a black rabbit warren, but cool venue. The mixing stage is in an egg shaped silver cage and the entire inside of the hall, is black. LCD SS was, as they were reviewed, very electro-funk. Review here.

Thursday morning saw us sleep in slightly, then head out for breakfast, slightly blurry eyed. Bridgette took the day of Uni and spent it wandering around with Katharina and Marek, until they had to leave for their plane home.

A very enjoyable few days, and hopefully we will et the oppurtunity to visit them in Germany as we pass through later this year.

Bridgette.