Lopez Family blog

So we got a high chair for Natalia.  Today we will give her solid foods for the first time.  Well, not really solid foods.  It’s very liquidy cereal, but they call it solids. We’ll take photos and let you know how it goes… 

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Over the past few months the amount of travel I’ve had to do has gone up a bit and the novelty has begun to wear off. So when I was made aware that I might be traveling at the end of January I wasn’t all that excited about it until I was told the client was in London. I felt like a kid again, I would get to go to London for a week with all expenses paid.

The first thing I did was to book my flight on Virgin Atlantic, I’ve found their service to be in general of better quality than that of any US airline. You get an amenity kit, wide choice of meals which include wine or beer, and on-demand in-seat entertainment systems. Oh and I almost forgot, there is a bar/lounge area on the plane.

One thing I found interesting was the pre-flight video in which a Virgin Atlantic pilot goes over every detail of the flight that’s about to take place. The video focuses mainly on the noises you might hear, what they are and why you needn’t worry about them. It made me sad to think that people are so paranoid now days that these types of videos need to exist. Nevertheless, with a row to myself and a large collection of Top Gear episodes on my computer I was off to England.

I had arranged to meet up with a friend on Saturday morning at the hotel after I’d had a shower an a change of clothes. We headed to the touristy part of town to walk around and catch up while having a look at the shops. My tolerance for such a place lasted about as long as it took to walk from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus. So we wandered off heading west and eventually found a nice little pub in a quiet neighborhood. Having quenched our thirst with a few pints we headed off again with no particular direction. Eventually we phoned up some friends and ended up at another pub near Leicester square. My night finally ended at the hotel bar where I had a really bad steak sandwich and of a really good pint of Murphy’s.

Sunday morning, hangover and all, I headed off to Oxford to meet up with Daniel again, walk around and pretty much do what we had done the previous day, only in a different locale. But it wasn’t all pubs and fish and chips, this time we made it into Christ Church and I go to see the dining hall where they filmed the Harry Potter movies.

I had to meet coworkers to prep for Monday’s meetings so I headed off back to London relatively early. However with traffic and the fact that I got lost on the tube and getting out of the tube station, I ended up arriving an hour late. At that time we decided there was only time to find food and call it a night.

The next three days weren’t nearly as exciting, we spent all day in an office building, much like I do when here. In the evenings we explored our surrounding area and managed to find some good food and even a pub or two. Wednesday night we were done with our work and had time to stay out a bit later so a friend took us to Brick Lane, London’s little India. It was interesting to watch people up and down the street try to give us the best deal in order for us to eat at their restaurant. We ended up deciding on a place that offered us a free beer and appetizers. We could have had a better deal a couple of doors down since they were offering us a free bottle of wine and 25% off our meal. But we figured that if they had to try that hard to get us in the door, we probably didn’t want to eat there. Our meal was pretty good but it was the people I was with that made the evening rather enjoyable.

Thursday morning I had a lazy start to the day before heading off to the airport where I was fascinated by the fact that the first thing you see after getting through security is what seemed like a mile of duty free shops. The flight back was long but uneventful. I managed to sleep for a couple of hours, I had a row of four seats to myself, and I even managed to get some work done.

It was a nice trip but I’m glad to be back home with the family.