Time has gone by fast and we have been living here for almost 19 months and have now started to feel comfortable with the British way of life which was unfamiliar and unsual for us a few months ago. Life is also becoming busier and hence the lack of updates on the blog. So here goes a brief summary of the fall.
Our last trip during the summer was a short visit to Madrid, Segovia and Toledo. We visited with my aunt and enjoyed the sunny days and evenings in Madrid. The highlight of the trip was the roman Aqueduct of Segovia, built around 1st century AD and still working. We also enjoyed the Spanish wine and the tapas.
The end of the summer also meant the end of university life for me, which concluded with the submission of my Masters dissertation and more importantly, the official end of school year celebration at our home - we had representatives from 17 different nationalities, a baby who was born during the school year and a putluck dinner with dishes from each corner of the world.
At the begining of September, life continued to change for us since I started working in central London, changing the dinamics of our life, joining the crowds of commuters in the underground. So since then, we have been spending more time in central London during the week, which we did not use to do before.
The last bit of fall felt more like winter, with our visit to our friends Elke and Thijs where we catched the first snow storm in the Netherlands. It was very cold, I guess we are slowly losing our Canadian winter toughness - especially true for Scott who was used to playing sponge hockey outdoors in Canada at -30 and now was feeling cold at -1. We visited the Rijskmuseum and the Heineken experience in Amsterdam, walked around Maarssen and enjoyed some quality time with our friends.
