Weather was fine, sunny day. Though it was only about 10 dgrees in day time. Autumn in Helsinki is much colder than that of London or Japan. I walked around the city and could see most of famouse building. In fact, it was a very small city…

I visited Helsinki, capital city of Finland with little plan. I had just reserved the hotel HELKA which was refurblished recently with Aarto design. Aarto is one of the most famous designer in Finland. You can find his works in shops calle…

Today we went out for dinner. Actually planned to go branch, but overslept :-p Anyway, We went to West India Quey. There are several bar and restrants have big open terrace out there. 本日は夕食を食べに行ってきました。 ブランチの予定が寝過…

Please let me explain in all Japanese today, since I want to mention how UK veg's different from Japan's. This may mean nothing for people who are not live in Japan. 今回は、ロンドンでみかける野菜と日本の野菜の違いを説明したいので全部日本…

I post some photo of neighborhood. I hope you can get some image of docland which we are now staying. This area is still under re-development (even main part of the town has been already completed) and is surrounded by Thames river. These …

Today I met a friend of mine in London. It has been more than 5 years since I met her last time. She just came over here to join a school. We met in Liverpool street and had lunch there. While we talked, we found that she worked for the co…

Today I would like to introduce our place in Docland. We are staying a kind of service apartment. It is like a flat with faniture and all small things for daily life such as dish and pan. Here we go. 本日は我々のお家を紹介しようと思います…

Sunday was much cooler than the day before. We took good rest in morning and went to Thames festival to get lunch again. This time we visit a park near London city hall. There was a Korean area, so we could get Burukogi. We walked through …

There was a festival along river Thames on the weekend. There were stages on several points and many stalls gathered around them. Various kinds of food were offered such as Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Korean, Moroccan and guinean. We went t…

We visited house of parliament. To get into the building, you need to apply guide tour before hand. Taking photo is not allowed except Westminster hall, entrance for the building, so there is no photo to report. We could go through house o…

The last place to visit was Bath the town famouse for Roman bath. 最後の目的地はローマ時代の公共浴場で有名なバースです。 I found the place is best of the day. Roman bath was green and looks no way safe enough to jump in (it is prohibited a…

Next stop was "Stone Henge Inn", a pub, stands alone beside street. We were dropped off from bus to get lunch. Literally, there was no choice other than bring lunch by yourself. It was deserted area. The guide said the lunch was quite nice…

On Friday, We joined a bus tour to visit Windsor, Stone henge and Bath. Compared with the day before, it was a better day at least we didn't got rained. But it was very breezy day. 金曜はバスツアーに参加しました。 行先はウィンザー、ストー…

Second day of UK was a chilly day. We just walked around west side of London. During the walk, I met squirrels in Hyde park. They were very used to encounter with human. Highlight of the day was visiting Kensington Palace and garden. Kensi…

This time I travel to London, U.K. Fortunately it is not for my business but for his. My husband got short term job in UK and I decided to come along with him. So for a while, I will take a leave for my job. ju-hu! As a result, my flight w…