be a tourist in my own town

Next time I’m downtown, I want to have lunch at The Berghoff. So I don’t have to make a special trip to do it later in life.

my office is on the 7th floor, should I choose to work there.

I want to plan this, and have my friend go with me. I want us to dress up in fanny packs and bad shirts and look like proverbial tourists. Then I want to go around downtown taking pictures like a bunch of dweebs. I think it would be a lot of fun, trick is finding time when she can do it.

Hmm not exactly touristy but I went to a new bar on Friday. It was fun. I went with my new colleagues and it was good to get to know them socially, as I’m taking phone calls all day there isn’t much time for chatting at work.

I’m going to “challenge the certification” (take the test without the $150 course in sailing) and rent a boat on Saturday afternoon.

Alex will go with me after caddy duty. I will invite Eric, too.

I’m going, regardless. “I don’t have a problem with that”

I’m going this Sunday 6/14. I don’t mind if no one else wants to go with me. “I don’t have a problem with that”

Last Saturday I went to the Natural History Museum with J. I wanted to see the gem room again and it was so lovely! I loved the opals, especially fire opal.

We also walked in the wildlife garden, it was really pretty. There were baby moorhens and a robin.

It has occured to me that in a place I’ve lived for FIFTEEN years of my life I could easily get lost. That is terrible! I’m not much better at my new place either. I can get to places but I can easily get lost or forget short cuts which is a bugger :( I blame my terrible sense of direction! Another main problem is that when I go out I usually just let my boyfriend lead. In future I intend to guide us to wherever we’re going and I’d like to take more frequent trips out for a walk. This is something I never do. I’m sure there’s plenty of things to do in both towns, I’ve just never bothered to look.

I went to the Fitzwilliam Museum today, I can’t believe I have lived here for so long and had never been! It was very worthwhile. It is a glorious building, I used to pass it every day for a year on my way to work.

There was nothing there which I absolutely loved, but I appreciated it all and that may be a better frame of mind to view art than my previous emotion-laden recent outings. I was surprised at how many “big name” pieces there were, paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, Seurat, also Millais, whose Ophelia I so loved last month.

I will definitely go again, not least because having got home and looked at their website, I discovered that not only is there Joseph Severn’s minature painting of Keats on display, but they also hold the manuscript of Ode to the Nightingale! I must make an appointment to see it at some point.

Yesterday I went to a cafe I had never been in before with a group of friends. We met up at Starbucks and I’m glad we went somewhere else, it was really nice to sit and drink tea with a street view, King’s College opposite and while away the afternoon chatting over a pot of Earl Grey.