July 8th, Driving

I drove to work today. For those who don’t know about this, British, their colonies, and for the even measure Japan had chosen to use the opposite site of the road for driving. And driver and passenger seats are reversed. I wanted to know why and so had searched Google for “why is driving on the left in uk.” Apparently a popular topic, with 170,000,000 result pages available. The reason for that is quite interesting and even more here.

Check out that cupcake

So driving. I guess we are back and all is good. So it is not that bad. Maybe in 50-100 trips I’ll get used to it. I am not sure if Dan ever will.

At the office everyone was very friendly. There is a large variety of fresh fruit in break rooms, one on each floor. The building itself is a true maze and not because of cubicles – there isn’t that many of them and they are mostly open. But “Male” and “Female” are in unusual locations and there are multiple stairwells all going to the same landings. Maybe, like the left hand side driving, there is some rationale for that as well.

We got back home for our afternoon of calls. And then Irina and I walked around with kids and feed the family of swans yet again. One day they will probably explode, and it will not be entirely due to us. In the evening Dan and I walked toward Hampton Court to see how long the walk will be for the flower show on Wednesday. It would be pretty long so we’ll have to find another way to get there.

Probably a bit smaller than in
Hoboken this year

Booked tickets to Belgium through the tunnel on Thursday to go to our Brussels office. Hurray!

Pasta 4 a true meat lover

On the eating front, Dan keeps spoiling us with incredible creations made with a touch of meat, soy sauce, seaweed and cauliflower. This is one of the best locations we've stayed in in terms of food. And the sight of the many temptations along the way during our walks makes us want to hold on to the last vestiges of our willpower like Lady Marian to her.. I guess, the children may read it too. So we will eat in as long as we can handle it. And then we will eat and face the inevitable consequences. Just like those swans.