The Garden of Dreams

On Saturday we visited the Garden of Dreams, which is an old formal garden that has been restored by an Austrian NGO and is now operated as a business. It is beautiful and quiet, with many places to find your own space. We explored it all, finding all the fountains and ponds, including one with fish in it, and Toby and Noa spent 20 minutes playing with the gravel in the path. I think we will go back there and next time I will bring a book.

After the garden we did another of our favourite things: we visited the European Bakery to buy fresh brown bread, dried lopsi fruit, cheese, and a chocolate eclair. I wanted to see how long it would take us to walk home so off we went: I had Toby in the backpack and Noa walked part of the way. It took us 45 minutes and wasn't too bad on a Saturday, when there is relatively little traffic- Saturday is the one full day off in the week.

This week is the build up to Dasen, the biggest family holiday of the year. We will have a party at work on Friday afternoon and then next week the office will be closed for 4 days. I'll tell you more later! Many of our staff will take 2 weeks of holiday around this time. At the end of the month is another festival called Tihar, which means 3 days holiday. In a way I'm dreading October because we have so much to do and not enough time to do it. We're going to make the most of it, though, hopefully with a short trek with my friend Mads next week.

OK, I should post this before the internet connection goes or the power is cut off!

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