今回ロンドンには車で行って、ホテルの近くの駐車場に泊めていたので、荷物が多くても大丈夫だったので気楽に買い物ができました。昨日は、ランチの後ロンドンを出て、ニューフォレストのコテージに3時ごろ着きました。イギリスに着いて直ぐに1カ月ほど滞在したので、居心地良くて助かります。

昨日は夕食は街に出るつもりだったのですが一日中雨でしたし、外食が続いていたので、スーパーに必要なものを買いに出るついでにハムやサラミやチーズやパンを買ってコテージで軽く食べることにしました。街まで歩いて直ぐですが、暗い中、雨の降る中、出掛けたく無い気分だったので。

でも、今日も雨なのです(涙)。明日は晴れるみたいですが。

This time we went to London in our own car and parked it in a parking lot near the hotel. I was able to enjoy shopping more, knowing that extra luggage wasn’t going to be a problem. We left London after lunch and got to the cottage in New Forest around 3.00pm. We stayed in this cottage for the first time for about a month after arriving in England so everything is familiar and we feel very comfortable here.

We were going to go out for dinner yesterday but it was raining all day and we didn’t feel like going out, and we’d been eating out every day for a while as well, so we decided to buy ham, salami, cheese, bread and have a light meal in the cottage. Even though it’s not far to walk to the town where there are quite a few places to eat, it’s not fun to walk in the rain and the dark. Having said that it’s raining again today so I suppose we’ll walk in the dark and rain tonight anyway. It’s supposed to be sunny tomorrow.