Things will be a bit quiet on the blog for the next day or two as we have P's brother and his family visiting from Switzerland. They've all gone up to London for the day to do a spot of sightseeing leaving me and my dodgy hip to mind the fort, a pile of Swiss passports and a couple of wallets - a sensible move if you ask me as you can never be too careful when visiting the tourist hotspots of central London.
I'm hoping that the hip will be up to joining them all on a visit to nearby Burnham on Crouch and then on to the Saxon church at St Peters on the Wall - which I've wanted to see for ages.
I've been racking my brains to try and remember the little German that I know, and have been put to shame by P's 11-year-old niece's command of English - very impressive. I managed to follow a fair part of the conversation yesterday evening but kept pretty quiet so as not to make a fool of myself speaking in 'Deutsch.' To make matters even more complicated for my pea brain (this is the woman with the ungraded French 'O' Level, don't forget,) they speak Schweizerdeutsch - a sort of Swiss patois of German which sounds very very different to German Deutsch, if you know what I mean..
Oh that church is lovely! Bit of a walk from the car park, but worth it. I love old buildings, somehow you can just feel the history. I went there a couple of years ago and have been planning a return visit soon. I bet it would be pretty windy there at the moment though, it's very exposed. Maybe in the Spring!
Posted by: Debbie | 10/07/2011 at 04:14 PM
Thanks, I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
Posted by: Moncler Jacke | 01/16/2012 at 02:42 PM