The newest Royal Borough

Continuing our resolution of discovering new parts of London, we finally made it to Greenwich a couple of weeks ago. We had been wanting to visit for ages, but kept deciding only to go if the day was sunny, which made it hard due to London's mostly grey days.

So we just decided to go, even if it rained, but luckily the weather turned out to be lovely, and since it wasn't yet Spring or Summer, the crowds weren't too crazy.

Greenwich has recently become a Royal Borough as part of the Queens Diamond Jubilee celebrations this year. It joins the three existing boroughs of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea and Maidenhead. Greenwich will also be hosting some of the Olympic events, I think the Equestrian events for both the Olympics and Paralympics will be held there, as well as some shooting and archery. So nothing interesting, like gymnastics, which is by far the best Olympic sport.

Exploring far East London

One of our New Year's resolutions we made this year was to spend more time visiting parts of London we haven't yet been to. We've been here for a year and a half, and there is still so much of London and the surrounding region that we haven't seen. Though to be fair, there's still lots of Auckland I haven't seen and I've lived there my whole life.

Changing Weather

So we haven't been doing much for the past few weeks, due to me having my tooth out and not being able to eat anything. So we've spent a lot of time at home watching movies in the past month.

Luckily my mouth has finally started healing (I think) and I have been able to eat solid food now, so as such, we have started venturing out of the house, as I'm no longer scared I'll get suddenly hungry and not be able to eat anything! So you can expect more up to date posts from now on as I'll actually have something to write about other than 'Today I spent the day in my pajamas watching The Vampire Diaries and then went and got a coffee'.

The weather has been rather crazy lately, it's supposedly still winter, but yesterday it was sunny and 20 degrees and this weekend it's raining with a high of 10! I never have any idea what to wear outside anymore. Rain is good though, since we're currently on a hosepipe ban, as if we're in Australia, and we have to watch how much water we're using.

Last month we had our first (and only) proper snow fall of Winter. When we first arrived we had quite a lot of snow, so I thought that was common for London, but apparently it isn't, so we were pretty excited when the snow started falling.

It was the day after I had my tooth out, and I got up from my sick bed, still feeling horrendous with a big fat face, and we went and spent some time playing in the snow. Snow brings everyone outside, every park in Chiswick was full of people building snowmen and having snowball fights. The dogs were just loving it, it was so funny watching them bounding through the snow!

The Turnham Green church - you're probably sick of images of this by now!