Jumped off at Heathrow by 8pm on 15th and boarded on the trip back by 8pm on 20th. What can one do in between with the jet lag???
The second day turned out to be most fruitful - met Doris my good friend at China Town (photo only showed me and Rose, forgot to take photo of Doris, sorry!); lined up in the rain (no hat, no scarf, no glove) and wind-chill factor of 5 deg for an hour before getting into the >100 exhibits strong van Gogh exhibit at the Royal Academy; had high-tea at Harrods and met my old school mate Albert Leung with his family over a wonderful Chinese meal (again, forgot to take a photo of Albert)!
Enjoy the famous English countryside probably??? - Ooops, unfortunately the sky was covered with blankets of Cumulonimbus with constant showers at most time but these taken at dawn still suggest an atmosphere of "Greensleeves" of Vaughan Williams!
Shirley and Felix (my sister and brother-in-law) and Angelina ("Squid" who helped me with the illustrations in my book) were all turned round and round with the East London Music festival lending essential helping hands to the event. Pascal my boy (shown in photo with Shirley - also his piano teacher)
got a cup by playing jazz with the highest marks in the festival. Well done son! Two tasteful and relaxed meals we had were Greek (Demetris in Woodford Green - with Felix, Pascal and Rose) and French (Le Julien near Barbican - with Felix, Shirley, Angelina, Rose and Pascal).
The Meursault we had with French was fresh with interesting fruit with a chewy palate though a bit acidic.
Wow! - finally met sunshine in the backyard of Felix's house.
Not to leave out leisure time spent on playing a bit my beloved pianoforte!
Alas - good times are always too short!!! Lots of thanks to Shirley and Felix!
Back to real life!!!
written with tremendous jet-lag (prob only slept 6 hours in the past 60 hours) 9pm, 23.2.2010
