Nicole see's the Queen

Rumour had it the Queen was in Town. She was to visit Kew Gardens on Tuesday.

I work next door to the Gardens and have a year pass that Libby-my boss bought for me already.

So off we went to spot the Queen.

I was in a prime position and spotted her before she went into the building for tea and cake.

She looked just like my granny Mona. Or maybe my Granny Mona looks just like her-anyway those two can work that out between them.

Carls TV3 Blog

Here is Carls blog :)

http://www.3news.co.nz/World/LondonCalling/tabid/1119/Default.aspx 

6 Months and a Bank Holiday :)

Here we are at the Walkabout. There was about 500 people at this bar, its a Sunday Tradtion. All Kiwis and Aussies-and maybe some South Africans. You drink jugs of this purple stuff- Snake Bites. Its some mixture of cider,beer and blackcurrant. A great day-you head off there midday and it closes at about 11pm. It was a bank holiday (public holiday) on the Monday-Usually your ment to head off to work with a big hangover. I don't think we will be heading there again-only if we don't have work the next day.
But it was great to drink with the boys. We had a BBQ at their place before. A REAL London flat with people all over the place. Our home is a lot more civilised than their's, but it was a good time

A Jug of "snakey".

We are having dinner for our 6 months, We went to a show after this. It was ahem-average! But still a good time. We had cheap tickets. Check out ET. After this we walked around Leicester Square. SO SO SO many people! So Cool!!

This is our new addition. We bought it from Kew Gardens-he was a bit grubby so we got a discount. He's called Henry. This is me walking down our street.

Tea and scones at Kew gardens. This is where I come most days as i work next to the gardens. I can see into the gardens from the house. My boss Libby has bought me a year membership. Carl is going to get one too so we can go back whenever

The place was PACKED but this is a good shot. There were actually people all around us. We are having a picnic.

Here we are with Sara and Scott and Hollie and Catie. Catie and Hollie are Carl's friends from NZ and Sara and her BF Scott are my friends. Andy is in the red also Kiwi and lives at our house. Hollie doesnt live with us though.

We went to the pub after this at the top if our road.

Carl is working on the blog for the TV3 site. Hannah has asked him to write a weekly blog about his London Travels. Will let you know when it's up and running.

Our first adventure to a pub. and some other stuff

Hello there

Here are the latest collection of photos.

On Friday night we went to the bus stop at the top of our road and climbed on the first bus that came along. Unsure where it took us but it wasnt the best area-well nothing compared to The Chizzy (Thats what we affectionately refer to as our local area- Chiswick)

Here we are enjoying a giant coacktail, this was an American themed restaurant called TGI Friday... "Thank god it's Friday".

On Saturday morning we headed off to the Anzac service. Started at dawn at 5am at Hyde Park. It was good, it was at the Australian memorial this year. They alternate each year. They also had a short service at the New Zealand memorial.

Here I am with a Anzac biscuit they were handing them out.

We were done by 5.30am and decided it wasnt worth heading back home, so we caught a few different lines and went to the Borough markets. It is a food market and was really , really good. We thoroughly enjoyed it. A must see!!

I bought some vegetables and Carl bought some fancy ham that they carved off the bone for him.

We then headed off to Harrods again-had to do some birthday shopping for Maureen.

Harrods is now Carls favourite place in London. I had to tear Carl away from the place, no worries-I am sure we will be back soon anyway!!

We then went out for the night with some of Carls kiwi friends. We went to my first pub, it was a good night and I managed to get Carl home in one piece.

Here is Carl, Mike and Andrew enjoying a Guiness.

Who likes Carls new hair-doo?

We went to Covent Gardens on Sunday, it was so great there. We will definelty go back again for another visit.

Nico's 2nd weekend

Look who we found!! It's Chelsea and Claire. Here we are having dinner at an Italian place and drinking some wine. We are waiting for them to come around tonight to come check out the rooms going at our place. They may move in.

We visited Tower of London this weekend. Here is Carl with the Beef Eater that replaced Maureens friend.

Here is the orchard Carl bought for me. Yay a replacement for my one at home. Look how giant this one is. This place was just as we got off the tube.

Here we are at Hyde Park. We actually lay on the grass but when we went to leave we saw these chairs, and saw a good photo op. We need some friends. Loaners!

Here we are at Harrods. This is the toy department. Carl is having fun. So is the guy behind Carl.

Here is some snow at Harrods. It came in a box and when opened turned into snow, that was even cold when you touched it. I liked this.

Yep Harrods. Might have to go back soon, too much in all one day. All we bought at Harrods was a post card. Oh and a Frappachino.

Nico's new friends

This is Peter and Maisy.

They are my new friends. We all weren't feeling very well on my first day yesterday. Maisy and Peter cried all day :( Hope it was just the sickness, they weren't too good at eating either. I think I was just spoilt with Gabe, he is such a super star.

What a good little boy Gabriel is.

Chiswick and Kew

This is on Chiswick High Road. We live off this road. There are lots of shops and places to eat and a big park. Carl works off this road.

This is a vegetable seller infront of our supermarket. The supermarket ( Sainsburys) is the orange place behind, there is also a Starbucks!! This is about 1km from our house. Lots of exercise!

This is a big church also on Chiswick High Road. Everything looks like this (old).

This is on my way to work. Nice and clean everywhere.

This is on Kew Bridge, which is where I walk to work.

Kew is such a nice area, so is Chiswick!!

Ive just made tea, now I'm waiting for Carl to come home. Hope he walks fast!