Little review of January

First of all: we wish everyone a happy 2008 ... from February on - and simply hope that your January was fine!

Don't really know why we haven't blogged earlier, no time, not in the mood, ... doesn't matter. But because we want to share our adventures with you and want to remind ourself of our little adventures, let's see what happened.

We went home for Xmas. 2 entire weeks. It was nice to see our families again, we had a really good time (and too much delicious food...). But it was also nice to come back and move on. For little D. the year started with a mean cold :(. Hope this was it for 2008! T. is still busy at work - and enjoys it a lot.

Except the usual day by day life not so much happened in January.

We went to a nice Bach concert at the Royal Festival Hall with friends on the 22nd. Angela Hewitt played the first book of "Das wohltemperierte Klavier". It was a very enjoyable concert. Later we read that on the morning of the concert her mother died. How sad. She played her heart out in the recital. And it was her best concert of the Bach world tour so far.

For the last days we had a good friend visiting us. This is always special. Unfortunately little D. couldn't spend as much time with her as she wanted to. So we hope we will see her again soon!! You know, you have to put a little bit of effort in it to make the days in London worthwhile for your visitors. Luckily we found a very nice restaurant. It is a Chinese restaurant called Hakkasan and it is located in a quiet alleyway close to Tottenham Court Road. This was the first delight. Tottenham Court Road on a Saturday at lunchtime is VERY busy. Turning into Hanway Road was like leaving London. Suddenly we were the only people on the street. The second delight was the beautiful interior of Hakkasan. A mix of 1930s Shanghai-style (e.g. dark wooden carvings as dividing walls) and a bit of the Matrix, as Time Out magazine rightly put it. Sometimes the restaurant is used as a film set. And finally, the meals were delicously delicious! We had some dim sum and some small main courses. This restaurant is definitely a place to remember and a place to celebrate something special.

The other discovery we made during our friend's stay is a pub with a very nice view over the Thames and St. Paul's. We will definitely take our next visitors there as well.

Finally, we managed to go to the movies as well. See next post for this. January wasn't bad at all!